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Eleni Koroneou Gallery: Cheng Yuzheng - Zoo - 16 Oct 2009 to 26 Nov 2009 Current Exhibition |
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Cheng Yuzheng "Zoo" 16 October - 21 November 2009 Private view: Friday 16 October 2009, 8-10 p.m. Eleni Koroneou Gallery is pleased to present for the new work of Yuzheng Cheng in his second solo exhibition. Yuzheng Cheng was born in Shuzou in 1977 and studied painting in the school of fine arts in Berlin (UDK) with professor K.H. Hoedicke. He lives and works in Berlin. Yuzheng Cheng uses as primary working material found images he collects from the press, television, the Internet and the flea market in order to transform them into painting, showing an unfamiliar aspect of the familiar. Without giving a definite judgment his works are about the understanding of these images from a painter�s point of view. Cheng cuts through the daily flood of images, and to counter the dull familiarity of media-produced pictures where you can barely decide what you are seeing he presents a painting practice that offers an entrancing glimpse of the gap between real and pictorial reality. He expresses a highly topical perspective on the forces and visual experiences of our contemporary world, which he transforms into the medium of painting. He halts the nearsighted transgressions of real-time images and transforms briefly seen motifs into permanent artistic reality. Hollow political rituals or everyday pictorial clich�s are laid picturesquely bare and captured in the paintings with familiar strangeness � bizarre and confusing. The artist himself in an interview said the following: �Its about banal objects that I paint, emphasizing specific details, like the fission in the paper or stains in order to transfer them in a different and bigger scale and allow the viewer to see the reality through my own eyes�. In the current exhibition with the title �Zoo� Yuzheng will present a series of paintings in smaller size that show scenes from the Zoological Garden. The series resulted from photographs the artist himself has taken in his regular visits in the zoo of Berlin. The photographs are transformed into paintings in soft tons, presenting important dissimilarities to the reality. In the paintings the facts are pictorially altered and put together again and this enables the viewer to see the reality beyond the surface. Cheng Yuzheng Born 1977 in Suzhou, China 1995-1998 Studies Interior Design at the School of Architecture Nanjing, China; completed. 2000-2001 Moves to Germany. Studies Graphic Arts at the Muthesius-School of Arts and Design, Kiel. 2001-2005 Studies Painting under Prof. KH Hodicke at the University of Arts, Berlin; completed 24 June 2005. 2005 Master scholar under Prof. KH Hodicke at the University of Arts, Berlin. Prize-winner of the Theodorus-Art-Prize 2005, awarded by the president of the University of Arts, Berlin. Lives and works in Berlin Solo Exhibitions 2008 Kunstverein Karonier, Fechta 2007 �As seen on screen, Cheng Yuzheng�, Thomas Levy Galerie, Hamburg Galerija Contra, Koper 2006 �Cheng Yuzheng � Tiefstapeln. Neue Bilder�, Galerie artMbassy �Liebe Gruesse�, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens �Landschaften�, Gallery Antje Wachs, Berlin �Theodorus-Hospiz-Preis 2005: Cheng Yuzheng�, Theodorus-Hospiz, Berlin 2003 - �Cheng, Yuzheng�, GFAM-Galerie fur aktuelle Malerei, Berlin Group Exhibitions 2007 �Marilyn Monroe: Life of a Legent�, Art Center, Sioux City; Museum of Art, Boca Raton; Museum of Art, Huntington & Art Institute, Dayton 2006 �The harder you look. Works on Paper�, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens �Berliner Positionen�, Kunst-Kabinett, Benz �Durchgeknallt � UdK Berlin�, Fahrradhalle portikussi, Offenbach �Marilyn Monroe�, Kunsthaus, Hamburg �Salon de Mai�, Gallery Thomas Levy, Hamburg 2005 �Graduates� Exhibition�, University of Arts, Berlin �Junge Malerei aus Berlin�, Gallery Thomas Levy, Hamburg �Touche [1974-2005] Klasse KH Hodicke an der UdK�, University of Arts, Berlin Participations in the Art Frankfurt and the Art Cologne trade fairs 2004 �Identitat im digitalen Zeitalter�, Federal Printing Works and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2003 �Klasse Hodicke�, University of Arts, Berlin �Schaustelle 8�, Gallery Giesler+Partner, Berlin �Neue Bilder III�, GFAM, Berlin 2002 Kunst-und Kulturverein Artibus, Berlin �Schaustelle 7�, Galerie Eva Poll, Berlin 2001-2006 Annual participation in the University of Arts� visitor�s days, Berlin Bibliography �Cheng, Yuzheng�, catalogue edited by Christian Malycha, Berlin 2003. Hanna Engelmeier �Gutes Neues. Drei Kunstler von denen wir in Zukunft noch einiges erwarten durfen�, in �QVEST�, No. 16, Berlin 2005. �Identitat im digitalen Zeitalter�, catalogue edited by the Federal Printing Works, Berlin 2004. �Junge Malerei aus Berlin�, catalogue edited by the Gallery Thomas Levy, Hamburg 2005. �Levy 1st. VIEW: Yuzheng Cheng�, catalogue (Art Cologne) edited by the Gallery Thomas Levy, Hamburg 2005. Christian Malycha �Das Erscheinen ist ein Entziehen. Cheng Yuzheng | Shan Shui | 2005�, Berlin 2005. �Neue Bilder III�, catalogue edited by the Christian Malycha, Berlin 2003. �Subjektive Obsessionen�, catalogue (Art Frankfurt) edited by the Gallery Michael Schultz, Berlin 2005. �Theodorus-Hospiz-Preis 2005: Cheng Yuzheng�, catalogue edited by the University of Arts, with contributions by Christian Malycha and Martin Rennert, Berlin 2006. �Touche [1974-2005] Klasse KH Hodicke an der UdK�, catalogue edited by the University of Arts, with contributions by Rene Block, Christian Malycha und Jorn Merkert, Berlin 2005. |
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