Group exhibition
30/09/1999 - 30/10/1999
Loft, the new gallery for contemporary Chinese art in Paris, is pleased to invite you to the exhibition "09.99 - Avant-Garde in China".
Opening reception on Thursday, September 30, 1999, at 6:00 PM.
Painting: Chen Wenbo, Guo Wei, Ma Tse-lin, Xie Nanxing, Yang Shaobin, Zhou Chunya
Conceptual Art: Zhao Bandi, Zhou Tiehai.
Calligraphy: Fung Mingchip.
Sculpture: Sui Jianguo
Video Art: Qiu Zhijie
Photography: Qiu Zhijie
Chen’s characters, young ladies in pink colours with blue eyes and soft skin, depicted on a black-tiled bathroom backdrop, look like robots or celluloid dolls, between fiction and the reality of a cyberworld. Allegories of the senses, they evoke sight, touch, and the pleasure of the bath. Clones of ideal beauty and ideal youth, the whole world would try to resemble them.
Born in 1960, Guo Wei graduated in woodcut program at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1989, and currently lives and works in Sichuan Province, China. He is a pioneer of early group oil painting exhibitions at mainland institutions in the 90’s. Guo Wei consistently insists on the individual figure, and many of his subjects … Continued
Born in Qingdao, Shandong province in 1956, Sui Jianguo studied sculpture at the Shandong Academy of Fine Arts, then at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, where he now serves as a professor and director of the sculpture department. World famous for his dinosaurs and his Mao jackets, Sui Jianguo has exhibited all over the world and his works are present in many public collections
Qiu Zhijie is born in Fujian Province in China in 1969. In 1992 he graduated from The National Academy Of Fine Art and he works in the printmaking department. But now he lives in Beijing as a full-time artist. As well as an art critic and curator.
