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Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne: I WROTE DOWN SOME OF MY THOUGHTS � LIU DING - 18 Apr 2009 to 4 July 2009 Current Exhibition |
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Liu Ding: "Descriptive, Narrative, Descriptive, Narrative" 2009
wood, porcelain, 84 x 36 x 38 cm Courtesy: Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne |
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Notes on Images 2 - writing on the work: Every time I pass by the new CCTV building, I was always truck by a sense of magic. This is an unusual building. Beijingers nickname it as a pair of underpants. I like this twisted architecture. In a totalitarian state, oderliness is of extreme importance. The government that embodies the inventiveness of a society has tolerated such a distortion in its order. Yet the people who are used to orderliness find it difficult to accept. 3 - writing on the work: In 1987, I saw this black and white print of Matisse's work, casual, inventive, peaceful, uninhibited. I was enchanted. I was hoping to reach a world as carefree as his. All I could do was copying and copying his work. In 2009, I saw this work again in color in an auction catalogue, with a very refinded frame, a famous and sophisticated owner, in a handsome house, with beautiful decorations and delicate flowers. Everything was so graceful and classic. Fame, politics, public recognition, and money has unified everything under one roof. 4 - writing on the work: Let's suppose this is a beginning for discussion. 6 - writing on the work: This is a food fridge in the Tate Museum. It is placed in a clean corner. I mistook it for a work of art. Yet it seems quite dull. It's hard to decide. My experience has determined every possible way of perception that I can have. I need to learn to view things from a new perspective 7 - writing on the work: A border is the limit of a sphere. This limit of a sphere also embodies the boundary of politics and power that define us indiscernibly. We also tacitly agree. In times of crisis, the border that defines us is as helpless as us. At such times, we are all equal. Yet when returning to the regular reality, it becomes cruel again. (We are being defining again.) 8 - writing on the work: An objective narrative is a useful addition to effective expression. 9 - writing on the work: Omission is the beginning of history writing. I WROTE DOWN SOME OF MY THOUGHTS � LIU DING April 18 � July 4, 2009, Lucerne Opening: Friday, April 17, 2009, 5.00 PM � 7.30 PM I Wrote Down Some of My Thoughts presents a recent series of works by artist Liu Ding, which reveals yet another important aspect of the multiplicities of his practice. The artist has commenced on this artistic adventure since the beginning of 2008, when he started to hand-write his strings of thoughts on black and white photographs that he had taken of a beautiful landscape early on. These thoughts recorded his contemplations on the medium of photography and the relationship between our visual memory/experience and the reality it�s based on. Rather than drawing any conclusion on this subject matter, the artist made bare his unprocessed process of thinking, remaining truthful to the occasional struggles the artist was having with his own thoughts, deliciously raw and thought-provoking. After that, the artist further explored this way of working by inscribing on a series of used furniture, which he turned into a room installation. In both groups of works, the objects he chose to write on, be it photography or furniture items, together with the process of writing became a courier for his deliberation. Often the texts were drawn from his own deliberation, about art itself, or concerning his perception of certain phenomena, experience and ideology. Although most of his writings use the first person in narration, we can always derive from his discussions issues that we can relate to or have experience of. In this exhibition, the artist relies on a selection of very specific and precise examples for his story-telling: printed reproductions of artworks, crafts, an altered map, photographs and mostly ready-made items that the artist regrouped or edited. He wrote down his perceptions and insights gained through them on them. They communicate his re-considerations of his own perceptions or experiences and awareness of a more universal nature. These �reconsiderations� imply a possibility for yet more �reconsiderations�. As the artist offers his �reconsiderations�, he also reminds us of the endless possibilities for re-perceptions of these perceptions. What these �re-perceptions� are about isn�t as important as the act of �re-perceiving� itself. It urges us to keep an active gaze, tirelessly re-examining the intellectual foundation that supports and positions us and what we call �experience�. Every piece of work in this exhibition is related to each other, situated within the coordinates of the artist�s system of thoughts. Liu Ding 1976 born in Changzhou Jiangsu Province, China 2001 established Pink Studio, Nanjing 2004-2005 founder and member of Complete Art Experience Project 2007-2008 artistic director, JoyArt, Beijing, China currently lives and works in Beijing as independent artist Selected Solo Exhibitions 2009 I WROTE DOWN SOME OF MY THOUGHTS � LIU DING, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing- Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland 2008 "Traces of Sperm", L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany 2007 "The Ruins of Pleasure", Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy "Tiger", Universal Studios Beijing, Beijing, China "The Remaining Landscape � New Paintings by Liu Ding", Grace Li Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland 2006 "Samples from the Transition � Products", L.A. Galerie Frankfurt, Germany 2005 "Samples from the Transition � Treasure", Long March Project Room, Beijing, China 2004 "Noah's Living Room � The Power of the Mass", China Unlimited, Berlin, Germany "Image Beyond Image � Liu Ding's Photography", Rooseum, Malm�, Sweden 2001 "White Ecstasy � Liu Ding's Installation", KAYI Gallery, Nanjing, China 1998 "Unbalance � Liu Ding's Paintings", FEIFAN Art Center, Nanjing, China Selected Group Exhibitions 2009 53rd Venice Biennal, Venice, Italy "The Big World: Recent Art from China", Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA The 2009-2011 Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada 5th Latin-American Biennial of Visual Arts, Instituto Paranaense de Arte, Curitiba, Brazil 2008 "China: Construction Deconstruction", Museum of Art San Paulo, San Paulo, Brazil "Aurum � Gold in Contemporary Art�, Centre PasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland "Down Town Prodution � Exhibition of the Artists Who Live in the City�, Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK "Far West", Arnolfini Arts Center, Bristol, UK "Art Multiple", Ke Center for Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China "New World Order", Groningen Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands "Global Eurasia", special exhibition in Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany "Community of Tastes", Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China 2007 "China Power Station II", Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway "Forms of Concepts � The Second Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts", Center for Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China "Chinese Video: Chord Changes in the Megalopolis", Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles,USA "Between and Reality and Illusion", Marty Walker Gallery, Texas, USA "Foreign Objects", Project Space, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria "Thermocline of Art � New Asian Waves", ZKM Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe, Germany "Timer � Intimacy", Triennial Bovisa, Milan, Italy 2006 "AllLookSame?" Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy "Dual Realities � The Fourth Seoul International Media Art Biennale", Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea "China Power Station I", Battersea Power Station, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK "Beijing Biennial of Architecture 2006", The National Museum of China, Beijing, China "The Amber Room", Luggage Store, San Francisco, USA "Chaos City", Universal Studios Beijing, Beijing, China "The Poetic Reality � A Reinterpretation of Jiangnan", RCM Art Museum, Nanjing, China "Fiction @ Love", MOCA, Shanghai, China "Renovation � Relations of Production", Long March Space, Beijing, China "Beyond - the Second Guangzhou Triennial", Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China "Complete Art Experience Project No. 6 � Playground of Authorship", University of Rochester, New York, USA "Limitation and Freedom", Wuhan Art Archives and Center, Wuhan, China "Complete Art Experience Project No. 5 � 24 Hours", Beijing Film Studio, Beijing, China "Archaeology of the Future � The Second Triennial of Chinese Art", Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China "Complete Art Experience Project No. 1 � Incest", Platform China, Beijing, China 2004 Myth and Reality � A Look Towards East", The 55th Edition of Fondazione Premio Michetti, Michetti Museum, Francavilla al mare, Italy "Temporality", L.A. Gallery, Beijing, China 2003 "Illusion", Artist Commune, Hong Kong, China "Play Not Play", Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China "Aphrodisiac", Hai Shang Shan Art Centre, Shanghai, China "Space � Guangdong Museum of Art Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition", Guangdong, Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China "Lustre � Two-Man Exhibition of Yu Fan & Liu Ding�, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China 2002 "Death is Silence", Yan Club, Beijing, China "New Urbanism � Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition", Guangdong Museum Of Art, Guangzhou, China 2001 "Money Funny Honey", Taikang Top Space, Beijing, China "Inauguration of the New Gallery", China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China 1999 "Restrained Over Restrained � A Short Film", 3M Gallery, Nanjing, China "Aesthetes and Vagueness � Performance Art Exhibition", Qinliang Park, Nanjing, China "The Feeling of Floating", Nanjing Normal University Museum, Nanjing, China |
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