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Miao Xiaochun Echo MIAO XIAOCHUN ECHO Miao Xiaochun, The triumph of Death, 2015 Acrylic on linen 400 x 400 cm MIAO XIAOCHUN ECHO Solo exhibition from May, 12 to June, 18 2016 Opening on Thursday, May, 12 from 6:00 pm in the presence of the Galerie Paris-Beijing is pleased to announce the solo show of Miao Xiaochun, unanimously considered as the pioneer of digital art in China. Echo reveals his most recent body of works, a stunning combination of paintings and 3D animations exploring the interfaces between the real and the virtual, the human and the digital, culture and technology. Professor in the Department of Photography and Digital Media at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, Miao Xiaochun has been relentlessly creating and building virtual universes, unlimited in size, perspective and imagination over the past 20 years. Populated by strange cybernetic beings, with no clothes, character or expression, these worlds combine the canons of European classical art history with highly technological and futuristic urban settings. Restart, a 3D animation created between 2008 and 2010, succeed in combining in less than a 14-minutes video the most diverse objects with numberless references to art history, architecture, and design. Raphael’s frescoes Parnassus and The School of Athens come after the macabre scenario of Pieter Bruegel paintings (The Triumph of Death, Fall of Rebel Angels, Mad Meg). Despite their digital reconstruction and reinterpretation, all the original masterpieces are clearly recognizable. The work, which is terribly attractive and unsettling, evokes the unsolved myth of Eros and Thanatos and raises the question of discontent in an ultra-developed civilization, where technology troubles human drives and desires. Kind of fleshless avatars, the human figures in Restart are reduced to their mathematic essence, but seem to keep an emotional and atavistic connection to the perceptible world. In a similar atmosphere, the work Disillusion (2009-2011) depicts sacred imagery from Noah’s Ark to the Pieta and including The Last Judgement. In combining the sublime awe of religious painting with malevolent science fiction theme, Miao Xiaochun develops his transfigured art world, dealing with our conception of religious works in the context of an apocalyptic vision of our existence in the future. In his videos Limitless (2011-2012) and Samsara (2014) Miao Xiaochun explores the Genesis and the endless cycle of life, always mixing history, culture, technology and images of a visionary world. The exhibition associates Miao Xiaochun’s animations to his large size paintings, echoing the same subjects and aesthetics. Defined as “algorithmic paintings” by critic and curator Wang Chunchen, they show virtual images that the artist obtains thanks to a particular practice exploiting the dysfunction of a 3D software. The large-scale nine-panel installation Microcosm (2008) is emblematic of the artist’s approaches and topics. In this work, Miao Xiaochun forces classic painting and new media art to a mutual reflection in order to reinvent Hieronymus Bosch's masterpiece, The Garden of Earthly Delights. Microcosm develops the Bosch's triptych in 9 panels corresponding to as many views of the original work in its three-dimensional transposition. The relationship between six side wings and three front panels means the viewer can view Hell from Heaven, and can also see Heaven from Hell and Earth. The spectator is encouraged to physically move about the work and discover the point of view of a naked and anonymous man, infinitely and identically replicated in this cybernetic version of world’s allegories. Miao Xiaochun was born in 1964 in Wuxi, China. He has graduated from Nanjing University, the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing and Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany. He currently lives and works in Beijing, where he is Professor in the Department of Photography and Digital Media at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). His work has been extensively exhibited worldwide over the last 20 years, including Beijing 798 (China), Venice Biennale (Italy), Ludwig Museum (Germany), the Asian House in Madrid (Spain), the Walsh gallery in Chicago (USA), the Saatchi gallery and the Red Mansion Foundation in London (UK). 62, rue de Turbigo 75003 | +33 (1) 42 74 32 36 | galerieparisbeijing.com | [email protected] Disillusion, 2009 - 2011 Video, 10"09', (Video still) Baptism 1, 2013 Baptism 2, 2013 Acrylic on linen Acrylic on linen 200 x 73 cm 200 x 73 cm The triumph of Death, 2015 Acrylic on linen 400 x 400 cm Restart, 2008-2010 Video, 14"22', (Video still) Samsara, 2009 - 2011 Video, 10"11', (Video still) Microcosm, 2008 (Détail) 9 Pannels complex Central pannel 300 x 286 cm Microcosm, 2008 9 Pannels complex 300 x 120 cm ; central pannel 300 x 286 cm MIAO XIAOCHUN Born in 1964 in Wuji, Jiangsu, China Selected Solo Exhibitions 2014 Dreamland, K.Gallery, Chengdu, China 2012 Miao Xiaochun: The Real in the Virtual, The Dennos Museum Center, MI, USA 2011 Limitless—Feng Mengbo | Miao Xiaochun, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China Out of Body, White Box Museum of Art, 798 Beijing, China Beijing Handscrolls, Guardini Foundation, Berlin, Germany Miao Xiaochun, Galeria Arsenał w Białymstoku, Poland 2010 Macromania, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany Miao Xiaochun—Two Big Video Works, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Selected Group Exhibitions 2014 Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, MI, USA Performance and Imaginations: Photography from China 1911-2014, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway Contemporary Photography in China 2009-2014, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Seeing the Unseen: Photography and Video Art in China Now, The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, USA Metamorphosis of the Virtual 5+5: Digital Art Today, Chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China China Arte Brasil, OCA, Parque lbirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brasil 1st Experimental Image open exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China Liquid Times, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Tour Exhibition of Pavilion of China at the 55th Venice Biennale, How Art Museum, Wenzhou, China The Best of Times, The Worst of Times Revisited—Selected Video Works From 1st Kiev Biennale, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China Exhibition on Contemporary Digital Art in China, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Digital Triangle—Media Art Today in Korea-China-Japan, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea 8+1—A Project of Experimental Art, Guangdong Contemporary Art Centre (GCAC), Guangzhou, China Translated Concussion—Chinese New Media Art Techniques and Practice since 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, China 10 Years of Contemporary Photography in China 2005-2014, The 10th Lianzhou International Photo Exhibition, Lianzhou, China 2013 The 55th Venice Biennale, The Chinese Pavilion, Venice, Italy Rewriting the Landscape, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea 1st Beijing Photo Biennial: Aura and Post Aura, China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China Spectacle reconstruction—Chinese Contemporary Art, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, Hungary Portrait of the Times—30 Years of Contemporary Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China The Garden of Forking Paths—Exploring Independent Animation, OCT Shanghai, China Move on Asia—Video Art 2002 -2012, ZKM, Karlshure, Germany @What—New Contemporary Art from China, Arko Art Center of Arts Council Korea, Seoul Nothing to declare?—World Maps of Art since 89, Academy of the Arts Berlin, Germany 2012 The 7th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art—Mountains and Waters: Chinese Animation Since the 1930s, Queensland Art Gallery l Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia The World of Soul: As Virtual Artistic Engineering, 1st Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, B10 Art Center, Shenzhen, China Conceptual Renewal—Short History of Chinese Contemporary Photographical Art, Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, China Chinese Contemporary Public Art, Kassel, Germany The Unseen, The 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Transformation: A View on Chinese Contemporary Art, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey New Image after 2000, Enjoy Museum of Art, 798, Beijing, China Architecture China—The 100 Contemporary Projects，Reiss-Engelhorn Museum(REM), Mannheim, Germany Go figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture，National Portrait Gallery and The Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Canberra and Sydney, Australia Passing Through Memory, Jinjihu Art Museum, Suzhou, China ARSENALE 2012, The 1st Kiev International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine Photo España—Image Anxiety, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain Future Pass, Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China SELECTED COLLECTIONS The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Collection, Sydney, Australia Essl Art Museum / Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg, Austria Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China FNAC, Paris, France Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Uli Sigg Collection, Mauensee, Switzerland LEISTER Collection, Switzerland The Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK Zabludoeicz Collection, London, UK The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, USA High defintition images are available on demand. For each image used, please mention the copyright below: ©name of the artist / courtesy Galerie Paris-Beijing CONTACTS : [email protected] I +33 (0)1 42 74 32 36 Press inquiries: Silvia Mattei [email protected].
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