HUANG XU (1968)

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HUANG XU (1968)
Ephemeral Thought N°3 Rice paper, signed lower right, 2007 printing 100 x 66 cm HUANG XU (1968) 1968 Birth of the artist in Beijing, China 1991 Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing Solo exhibitions: 2009 Visual Arts by Huang Xu, October Gallery, London, Great Britain 2008 Fragments, Arc 1 Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Artists Residence Program - Huang Xu: Untitled (Mixed Media on Canvas) ColorElefante C, Valencià, Spain Huang Xu's Photography, Mulpa Space, Beijing 2007 Huang Xu's Photography, La Case Art, Spaces, Beijing Group exhibitions: 2009 Huang Xu: Plastic Bags, "Art Dubai 2009", Dubai, UAE 2008 Luminous Dark, Bleibtreau Gallery, Berlin Luminous Dark, King Street Gallery, Sydney Huang Xu: Plastic Bags, "Art Beijing 2008", China Dancing with the Dragon: Contemporary Art From Beijing, Turchin Center for Visual Art, North Carolina, USA "Meaning-Less" Photo Exhibition, VIS-A-VIS Art Lab, Xiamen, China "P.O.P." (Painting/Print/Photography) Exhibition from Beijing & New York Artists, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing Act First and Report Afterwards, 3 Space, Beijing In Lens, Out of Lens, Duke Art Space, Beijing C.A.P. Launch, Two Lines Gallery, Beijing 2007 Independent Screenage Document, Open Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing Warm up, Hot Sun Space, Beijing Associated Exhibition In September, PICKLED Art Center, Beijing The Ways, KE Centre for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China 2006 Paper View, Two Lines Gallery, Beijing Allocate, Beijing International Art Campus (BIAC) 2005 Demolish, Demolish, BIAC The First and Second Open Exhibitions, BIAC 2003 Going to Market, Shangri-la Community Art Center EPHEMEROUS THOUGHTS Everyday poetry The ancient scholars gave certain stones (gongshi) the virtues of stimulating the spirit, they all had their own personalities; some even claim that the stone chosen is its owner, they are of all sizes and can be found on the desks of poets as in the imperial gardens. What a daring comparison between the thought stone, the only natural, noble, solid, practically immortal object, and the plastic bag, banal, both fragile and hard to destroy, whose worked forms are so ephemeral that they change at the slightest breath. It is hard to believe that vulgar plastic bags can be transformed into elegant ghostly forms. Yet this is what we discover in this exhibition by Huang Xu, whose painterly photographs manage to sublimate this material, symbol of human consumption, giving it a poetic aura full of grace. Without retouching, in their natural state, the forms meet and become entangled in light and majestic dances. Aerial, floating in the void, the banal material finds here its letters of nobility. Its liberating undulations give the works a musical, almost lyrical dimension, an extraordinary aesthetic to the glory of waste and everyday poetry.
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