Yang Fudong
07 Apr - 09 Jun 2006
No Snow on the Broken Bridge
Film and Video installations by Yang Fudong
7 April until 9 June 2006
Private View 6 April 2006, 6-8pm
Every film and video by Yang Fudong is about human being. In them Yang Fudong mostly depicts his own generation. Being in their late 20's and early 30's, these young people seem confused and appear to be hovering between the past and present. Indeed, Yang Fudong's work epitomises how the recent and rapid modernisation of China has overthrown its traditional values and culture. What is remarkable though, is how skilfully Yang Fudong balances this dichotomy to create works that are endowed with classical beauty and timelessness.
Each of Yang Fudong's works is a dramatic existential experience and a challenge to take on. His work is open-ended and inconclusive, therefore open to individual interpretation.
Yang Fudong was born in 1971 in Beijing. He trained as a painter in the China Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou. Starting in the late 1990's Yang Fudong embarked on a career in the medium of film and video.
© Yang Fudong
Lock Again, 2004, 16mm film, colour, 3', music by Miya Dudu
Film and Video installations by Yang Fudong
7 April until 9 June 2006
Private View 6 April 2006, 6-8pm
Every film and video by Yang Fudong is about human being. In them Yang Fudong mostly depicts his own generation. Being in their late 20's and early 30's, these young people seem confused and appear to be hovering between the past and present. Indeed, Yang Fudong's work epitomises how the recent and rapid modernisation of China has overthrown its traditional values and culture. What is remarkable though, is how skilfully Yang Fudong balances this dichotomy to create works that are endowed with classical beauty and timelessness.
Each of Yang Fudong's works is a dramatic existential experience and a challenge to take on. His work is open-ended and inconclusive, therefore open to individual interpretation.
Yang Fudong was born in 1971 in Beijing. He trained as a painter in the China Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou. Starting in the late 1990's Yang Fudong embarked on a career in the medium of film and video.
© Yang Fudong
Lock Again, 2004, 16mm film, colour, 3', music by Miya Dudu