Gao Feng: Traditional Metamorphosis
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"Traditional metamorphosis" is a retrospective of the evolution of Gao Feng's viruses from their germinal phase to their virtual translation in a historical and human context.
Gao Feng's micro-organisms have the power to infect history and reality by serving as a medium to connect the past and the present and establish new relationships with the "real world" (as in his later works "Present Life" and "Past Existence" series). They are the key motif in a constant process of metamorphosis where they take different shapes and appear in different historical settings and miscellaneous sceneries. They spread like viruses, resistant to the passage of time, in an endless game of mutations where they constantly interfere with the perception of the "real".
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6 months, 3 weeks ago
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This collection of recent paintings by Gao Feng anthropomorphize micro-organisms, contextualizing these strange hybrids within the space of traditional Chinese landscape painting. The result is an unsettling view of contemporary culture that infects how we understand both history and present reality.
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Please come early for the guzheng performance at 6:30pm this saturday.
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Colourful, imaginative and slightly disturbing!
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puzzling.... is it essential that art should make any sense?if so,what does this artist want to imply...
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puzzling.... is it essential that art should make any sense?if so,what does this artist want to imply...
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That concubines are like insects? Good question...
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why dont you come in, we'd love to meet you and talk about gao feng :)
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maybe i should have....but there was nobody inside that little room,and i felt like i'm too superficial to talk deeply into ART:(
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due to this exhibition's popularity we have extended it for a week. come by before it ends.
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Please feel free to come to the opening on Saturday July 12th 6:00pm. We will have a guzheng performance and wine sponsored by Montrose China.
We hope to see you there.