Yang Fudong
24 Mar - 30 Apr 2007
YANG FUDONG
"No Snow on the broken bridge"
ShanghART Gallery is pleased to present a Solo exhibition with new video work by Yang Fudong
Yang Fudong: No Snow on the Broken Bridge(ARTFORUM International, Best of 2006 Film)ShanghART Gallery H-Space
Yang Fudong’s film and video work is about the human condition. He mostly portrays his own generation of individuals in their late 20’s and early 30’s, young people who seem confused and appear to hover between the past and present. Yang Fudong’s work epitomizes how the recent and rapid modernization of China has overthrown traditional values and culture. He skillfully balances this dichotomy to create works endowed with classic beauty and timelessness. His works investigate the structure and formation of identity through myth, personal memory and lived experience. Each of his films 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 seeks through multiple vignettes to offer the poetics of place and existence: Whatever occurs, Yang Fudong’s film work and photography indicate that something remains untouched and unmoved, and perhaps all the more valuable for that reason.
“Howering between classical Chinese brush-and-ink painting and shanghai cinema of the 20s, fudong’s enveloping eight-screen landscape No Snow on the Broken Bridge populated by angst-ridden youth, springs eternal.”
Yang Fudong was born in 1971 in Beijing. He trained as a painter in China Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou. Starting in the late 1990’s Yang Fudong embarked on a career in the mediums of film and video. He is among the most successful and influential young Chinese artists today. Yang Fudong participated in the 50th Venice Biennale (2003), First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2005), 1st International Sharjah Biennale (2005), 1st Prague Biennale (2003) and 5th Shanghai Biennale (2004), The 5th AsiaPacific Triennial of Contmeporary Art (2006). He has had solo-shows at most acclaimed institutions such as Kunsthalle Wien (2005), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, 2005), Castello di Rivoli (Torino, 2005), The Moore Space (Miami, 2003), and ARC/Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2003).
"No Snow on the broken bridge"
ShanghART Gallery is pleased to present a Solo exhibition with new video work by Yang Fudong
Yang Fudong: No Snow on the Broken Bridge(ARTFORUM International, Best of 2006 Film)ShanghART Gallery H-Space
Yang Fudong’s film and video work is about the human condition. He mostly portrays his own generation of individuals in their late 20’s and early 30’s, young people who seem confused and appear to hover between the past and present. Yang Fudong’s work epitomizes how the recent and rapid modernization of China has overthrown traditional values and culture. He skillfully balances this dichotomy to create works endowed with classic beauty and timelessness. His works investigate the structure and formation of identity through myth, personal memory and lived experience. Each of his films 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 seeks through multiple vignettes to offer the poetics of place and existence: Whatever occurs, Yang Fudong’s film work and photography indicate that something remains untouched and unmoved, and perhaps all the more valuable for that reason.
“Howering between classical Chinese brush-and-ink painting and shanghai cinema of the 20s, fudong’s enveloping eight-screen landscape No Snow on the Broken Bridge populated by angst-ridden youth, springs eternal.”
Yang Fudong was born in 1971 in Beijing. He trained as a painter in China Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou. Starting in the late 1990’s Yang Fudong embarked on a career in the mediums of film and video. He is among the most successful and influential young Chinese artists today. Yang Fudong participated in the 50th Venice Biennale (2003), First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2005), 1st International Sharjah Biennale (2005), 1st Prague Biennale (2003) and 5th Shanghai Biennale (2004), The 5th AsiaPacific Triennial of Contmeporary Art (2006). He has had solo-shows at most acclaimed institutions such as Kunsthalle Wien (2005), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, 2005), Castello di Rivoli (Torino, 2005), The Moore Space (Miami, 2003), and ARC/Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2003).