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PB the Walls of Utopia Gao Brothers, The Utopia of Construction n°5 (2014), c-print, 150x150cm Between the Walls of Utopia Gao Brothers ● solotentoonstelling Vernissage vrijdag 11 september 2015, 17u - 21u Expositie van 12 september tot en met 29 november 2015 open van donderdag tot zondag, 10u - 19u rue des renards/vossenstraat 28 • 1000 brussels • belgium 中国上海市万航渡路 733 号 / 733 wanhangdu road • shanghai 200040 • china +32 2 502 40 58 • [email protected] ifa-gallery.com Between the Walls of Utopia "Between the Walls of Utopia" is de eerste solotentoonstelling in Brussel van het gerenommeerde kunstenaarsduo de Gao Brothers (Gao Zhen & Gao Qiang). Ze worden internationaal geprezen. Vertrekkende vanuit het Chinese voobeeld plaatsen ze al meer dan twee decennia vraagtekens bij de positie van de mens in de hedendaagse samenleving om zo tot een universeel standpunt te komen. Hun eerste belangrijke installatie in een reeks van gewaagde werken was te zien op “China/Avant-Garde” (National Gallery of Beijing) in 1989. Deze tentoonstelling was van grote betekenis voor de Chinese hedendaagse kunst. Hun sociale en artistieke betrokkenheid tijdens de demonstraties op het Tiananmen-plein kostte hen hun paspoort gedurende meerdere jaren. De Gao Brothers hebben inderdaad een aandeel in de kritische getuigenissen op de Chinese samenleving. Dit uiten ze in hun kunst via verscheidene media zoals fotografie, video, schilder- en beeldhouwkunst, theater, performances, kritische essays en zelfs via hun rol als curatoren en het organiseren van tentoonstellingen met andere artiesten. De Culturele Revolutie (1966-1976) had tragische gevolgen voor hun familie. Ze streven dan ook naar een grotere vrijheid van meningsuiting. Dit is het zichtbaarst in hun reeks politieke schilderijen en sculpturen, zoals de groteske Miss Mao of de Executie van Christus door een Mao Zedong regiment. rue des renards/vossenstraat 28 • 1000 brussels • belgium 中国上海市万航渡路 733 号 / 733 wanhangdu road • shanghai 200040 • china +32 2 502 40 58 • [email protected] ifa-gallery.com ifa gallery selecteerde voor deze tentoonstelling een geheel van recent fotografisch werk dat een ander aspect onthult welk eveneens van essentieel belang is voor hun werk: een aanklacht van de isolering van het individu binnen de verstedelijkte samenlevingen. De meeste van deze werken werden nooit eerder in Europa vertoond. De serie The Construction of Utopia, een metafoor voor de rol van het individu binnen de context van de maatschappij, kwam pas na maandenlang werken tot stand. Een groep individuen nemen elk een beperkte en gesloten ruimte in binnen geometrisch structuren. Dit doet denken aan eerder werk zoals de naakten in Sense of Space, de ineengestrengelde figuren in Confrontatation and Embrace of de figuren die schuchter contact zoeken in The Forever Unfinished Building. Het is een wereld apart waarin individuen zijn opgesloten in cellen die zich een oneindig aantal maal lijken te vermenigvuldigen. Deze cellen, soms bijenkorfraten, vensters, schermen of betonnen behuizingen voor gebouwen, zijn gestileerde interpretaties van de enorme, glazen wolkenkrabbers die de Chinese steden zijn binnengedrongen. Is het een verwijzing naar mandala of noem het een bewoonde versie van Victor Vasarely’s optische kunst; bij de Gao Brothers heeft ruimte in ieder geval een sterk symbolische functie. Het symboliseert namelijk in essentie utopiën: een geografische ruimte voorbij onze wereld. Hun artistieke constructies hernemen de geometrische en circulaire plannen van denkbeeldige steden van het Utopia van Thomas More of van Plato’s Atlantis. Een aanklacht van de onophoudelijke verstedelijking, van gefixeerde sociale structuren waarin broederschap of de directe uitwisseling tussen individuen als verdacht wordt aanzien. rue des renards/vossenstraat 28 • 1000 brussels • belgium 中国上海市万航渡路 733 号 / 733 wanhangdu road • shanghai 200040 • china +32 2 502 40 58 • [email protected] ifa-gallery.com Een utopisch landschap dus vertegenwoordigd door een mix van culturele referenties van de ervaringen van het individu in de samenleving in een tijdperk van globalisering. Een voorstelling van een hedendaagse Toren van Babel waarin, naar de woorden van criticus en curator Nicolas Bourriaud1, “het linken van symbolen die hun eigen route uitstippelen in de sociaal-culturele ruimte of binnen de kunstgeschiedenis"1, de kunstenaar een ultramoderne semiologische navigator wordt. Dit zijn niet langer de post-industriële landschappen zoals we die kennen van Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky of Beat Streuli, maar eerder post-cultuurlandschappen die voor de Gao Brothers het uitdrukkingsmiddel bij uitstek zijn om de invraagstelling van de relatie tussen het individu en hun sociale omgeving te vertegenwoordigen. Gao Brothers, The Utopia of Construction n°15 (2014), c-print, 200x100cm 1 Nicolas Bourriaud, Radicant, pour une esthétique de la globalisation, Denoël, p.186. rue des renards/vossenstraat 28 • 1000 brussels • belgium 中国上海市万航渡路 733 号 / 733 wanhangdu road • shanghai 200040 • china +32 2 502 40 58 • [email protected] ifa-gallery.com Gao Brothers Gao Qiang 1962 – Geboren in Jinan, China Gao Zhen 1956 – Geboren in Jinan, China De Gao Brothers zijn twee kunstenaars-broers die wonen en werken in Peking. In de afgelopen 20 jaar en sinds hun niet-onopgemerkte deelname aan de internationaal vooraanstaande tentoonstelling "China/Avant-Garde" in 1989 (National Gallery of Beijing) ontplooit hun kunst zich via een enorme verscheidenheid aan media zoals fotografie, video, schilder- en beeldhouwkunst, theater, performances en kritische essays, maar ook in hun rol als curatoren organiseerden ze zelf tentoonstellingen met andere artiesten. Ze bevragen de positie van de mensheid en het broederschap in de hedendaagse wereld. Getekend door de dood van hun vader onder het maoïstische regime gingen zij demonstreren op het Tiananmen-plein. Het kostte hen hun paspoort gedurende meerdere jaren. De broers delen een zeer kritische houding ten opzichte van de Chinese samenleving. Hun werken maken deel uit van collecties van de belangrijkste musea voor hedendaagse kunst met inbegrip van het MoMA en de Guggenheim Foundation (New York), het Victoria and Albert Museum (Londen) en het Centre Pompidou (Parijs). rue des renards/vossenstraat 28 • 1000 brussels • belgium 中国上海市万航渡路 733 号 / 733 wanhangdu road • shanghai 200040 • china +32 2 502 40 58 • [email protected] ifa-gallery.com Persoonlijke Tentoonstelling 2014 – “The Gao Brothers – Dissidents abroad”, MONA Museum, Detroit, USA 2013 – “Between Spiritual and material Spaces: the photographic World of the Gao Brothers”, Hua Gallery, London, United Kingdom 2013 – “The Gao Brothers: The Execution of Christ”, Albert Benamou Gallery, Paris, France 2013 – “The Gao Brothers”, Galerie Post + García, Maastricht, The Netherlands 2012 – “The Gao Brothers”, Vue Privée Gallery, Art Stage Singapore, Singapore. 2012 – “The Utopia of 20 Minutes Embrace” Piazza del Popolo, Rome, Italy 2011 – “The Gao Brothers”, Grandeur and Catharsis, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA. 2010 – “The Gao Brothers”, gallery Adrian David, Knokke-zoute (Kustlaan 335), Belgium 2010 – “The Gao Brothers”, Duncan Miller gallery, Los Angeles. USA 2010 – “Gao Brothers’ Portraits”, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing 2010 – “The Gao Brothers: Grandeur and Catharsis”, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA 2008 – “Sense of Space”, Galerie Art Mur, Montreal, Canada 2008 – “Some Space for Humanity: Gao Brothers Photography Exhibition”, ifa gallery, Shanghai, China 2008 – “The Gao Brothers”, Vallois Gallery, Paris, France 2008 – “The Utopia of Construction”, Gao Brothers Center For Contemporary Art, Beijing, China 2007 – “The Gao Brothers”, Ballery, ox Art G, Verona, Italy 2007 – “The High Place: Gao Brothers Photography and Sculpture Exhibition”, Beijing New Art Projects, Beijing, China 2007 – “The Miserable Prostitutes: Gao Brothers’ Painting and Sculpture Exhibition”, Gao Brothers Center For Contemporary Art, Beijing, China 2007 – “The Gao Brothers”, Albert Benamou gallery, Paris, France 2007 – “The Gao Brothers”, Limn gallery, San Francisco, USA 2007 – “The Utopia of 20 Minutes Embrace”, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany 2007 – “From China with Love: Gao Brothers Photography and Sculpture Exhibition”, Walsh gallery, USA 2007 – “Another World: Gao Brothers Photography Exhibition”, Arles Photo Festival, France 2006 – “Miss Mao: Gao Brothers' Sculpture and Photography Exhibition”, Krampf/Pei Gallery, New York, USA 2006 – “One and Together: Gao Brothers Photography Exhibition”, Moscow House of Photography Gallery on Solyanka, Moscow 2006 – “The passage of Time: Gao Brothers Photography Exhibition”, La Galerie rue des renards/vossenstraat 28 • 1000 brussels • belgium 中国上海市万航渡路 733 号 / 733 wanhangdu road • shanghai 200040 • china +32 2 502 40 58 • [email protected] ifa-gallery.com Guislain Etats d' Art, Paris, France 2006 – “The Utopia of Hugging”, London, Nottingham, Marseille, France 2006 – “Trope of Body: Gao Brothers' Photography Exhibition”, Beijing New Art Projects, Beijing, China 2005 – “One Abandoned Building’s Visual Story”, Beijing New Art Projects, China 2002 – “A Dinner With The Homeless People” - Performance, Jinan, China 2001 – “Embrace: Gao Brothers' New Works”, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China 2000 – “Fuse: Gao Brothers' Photography”, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China 1995 – “The End of Mankind: Gao Brothers”, Installations, Jinan Painting Institute, China Tentoonstelling van groep (Selectie) 2013 – “Sensor Ship 0.46%”, Art Basel
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