Multi-Archeology
1162 - 2162 Another Thousand Years
Conceptualist | Curator: Li Zhenhua
| Curatorial Eassy from Li Zhenhua
Art Works
| Wang Yuyang <Artificial Moon> 2007
Artificial Moon
light installation
Size : 400cm diameter spherical body.
Material: various kinds of low-energy light bulbs, steel.
Artist’s Statement:
An artificial moon
10000 low-energy light bulbs, each one lasting for 8000 hours.
100000 watts energy use
We are watching the lights illuminating themselves
That is all about this artwork
Curator’s Comments:
Since the 80s when abstract art was discredited, Chinese art went through periods of representational, expressionist and abstract art (again) etc. ‘Artificial Moon’ has departed from clichéd Chinese symbolism, and sets abstraction, minimalism and conceptualism in the same environment, that of reality. The moon was the subject which the artist addressed in a previous piece: ‘The Moon Landing Programme’ (2006) which questioned this event. When the form of the moon has been re-contextualized, and is placed within touching distance, all the existing metaphors are blended into an environment of pulsing light.
BIO
Wang Yuyang
1979 born in Haerbin, P.R. China
2004 Bachelor degree from Central Academy of Drama, China
2008 Postgraduate degree from Central Academy of Fine Arts, China
2002 ‘water’
‘FeiHuanFei’
2003 ‘Ti’
‘Margaret’s neighbour’
2006 ‘Breath’
‘Things in Water’
2007 ‘The Moon Landing Programme’
‘Artificial Moon’
2008 ‘Dust is Dust’
2002 China-Korea Art Exchange Exhibition, Capital Normal University Art Museum, Beijing, China
Untitled, The Central Academy of Drama, Beijing, China
2003 ‘Post Sense Sensibility: Revealing’ Seven Color Theatre, Beijing, China
2003 ‘Reproduce 798,’ Beijing, China
2006 ‘Archive,’ Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
‘Time,’ Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2007 ‘Sustainable Imagination,’ Media Art in China Exhibition Series 1999-2007, Arario Beijing, China
‘German Night-Goethe Institute commission project,’ Beijing, China
2008 CPU: 798, Beijing, China
Venue:
Palazzo Strozzi CCCS, Florence, Italy
Duration:
March 20th - May 4th, 2008
Special Thanks:
Tang Contemporary Art Centre
Wang Jianwei
Joe martin Hill
