LIU SHIYUAN, "This Way or That Way", 2016, Site-specific installation, detail
Frieze New York
Booth B35
Randall’s Island, Manhattan
May 4th through 8th, 2016
Located at booth B35, the gallery will be exhibiting a solo presentation of Beijing-born and Copenhagen-based young female artist Liu Shiyuan, whose installations and photographs have recently been exhibited at various institutions, including Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, Yuz Museum Shanghai (solo), Aurora Museum Shanghai, among others.
Having studied at School of Visual Art, lived and worked in New York before relocating to Copenhagen, Liu Shiyuan has developed an artistic sensibility in response to the contemporary Chinese diaspora, and its ensuing pattern of cultural shocks. Manipulating everyday objects, stock images, and theatrical gestures, her practice navigates the subtle borderline between rationality and mystery, reality and fiction.
LIU SHIYUAN, "This Way or That Way", 2016, Site-specific installation, computer sketch
The booth will premiere “This Way or That Way” (2016), a site-specific installation developed from Liu’s earlier “From Happiness to Whatever” which was created specifically for the artist’s first and eponymous solo with the gallery and now on view at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. Composed similarly of patches of carpets arranged in tiles, the new installation is a collage and juxtaposition of various reinterpretations of multi-national flag patterns and slogans on top executed in diverse typefaces to encompass sentiments, poetics, campaigns and truisms. A station of propaganda, the work explores the idea of semantics as cultural signifiers, and further questions the value systems defined by flexible identities, networks and mobility.
Liu Shiyuan will present a newest iteration of her critically acclaimed project “As Simple As Clay” which has been included in several museum shows and was the subject of her solo exhibition at Yuz Museum Shanghai. A wall of hundreds of small prints showcases objects, gestures and activities that Liu collected through Google’s translation and search of “clay”. An encyclopaedic catalogue of cross-cultural representation and understanding of clay, the work has also explored the multiplicity and contradictions of diverse cultural values and knowledge, interrogating the “flatness” offered by the Internet.
Also on view in the booth is a set of color photographs commissioned by Kaleidoscope magazine for their recent issue of Asian edition. Entitled “Wonderland”, the series was produced out of stock images on everyday’s food consumption (of a variety of cold cut, mushrooms, breads, etc) to query the meaning and beauty of contemporary life.
LIU SHIYUAN, "Wonderland #2", 2016, Archival inkjet print, 23 x 30 cm
Liu Shiyuan (b. 1985 in Beijing) graduated from the School of Visual Art in New York with MFA in Photography, 2012; Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing with BFA in New Media Art, 2009. Her work has been shown in many exhibitions. Recent and upcoming groups shows include Yinchuan Biennale 2016, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Yinchuan, 2016; “Tutorials”, Pino Pascali Foundation Museum, Polignano, 2016; “Bentu, Chinese Artists In A Time Of Turbulence And Transformation”, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2016; “Unordinary Space”, Aurora Museum, Shanghai, 2015; CAFAM Future, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, 2015; “Second Thought”, Flower Gallery, New York, 2015; “New You See”, Whitebox Art Center, New York, 2014; 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, OCT- Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, 2012; “stillspotting nyc“, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, among others. She received Honorary AIR Awards from Kala Art Institute, San Francisco, 2014, and Paula Rhodes Memorial Award, New York, 2012.
Click to read Liu Shiyuan’s interview and portfolio on Kaleidoscope Magazine.
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LIU SHUYUAN, "As Simple As Clay", installation view, Yuz Museum, 2015
LIU SHUYUAN, "As Simple As Clay", installation view, Yuz Museum, 2015
弗里兹纽约艺术博览会 (Frieze New York)
展位号：B35
美国，纽约，曼哈顿，兰德尔岛 (Randall’s Island)
2016年5月4日至8日
LEO XU PROJECTS 很荣幸地宣布我们将第四次参加弗里兹纽约艺术博览会 (Frieze New York)，展期 2016年5月4日至8日。届时我们将展出中国年轻艺术刘诗园的个展。我们展位号是B35。
刘诗园现居住于丹麦哥本哈根。她的作品近期在多个美术馆展出，其中包括了巴黎的路易威登基金会美术馆、上海的余德耀美术馆（个展）和上海震旦博物馆等。曾求学于纽约视觉艺术学院（SVA）并在纽约居住工作，刘诗园的生活历经跨越了多个国家、城市，因此她的创作也从中国移民体验中的文化差异、跨地域和文化的对话和反思的获得灵感。她运用了日常物件、现成图像、图库图像等材料，间或辅以更具有表演性的语言，在介于摄影、录像、拼贴、空间装置多个领域接壤之间，去描绘今天全球化盛景下个体的感知与理性、现实与荒诞。
本次画廊展位将首展《这边或那边》（2016）。这件空间作品脱胎于声音装置《从幸福到别的一切》；后者系为艺术家与画廊的首次同名个展创作（2015），现正展出于巴黎的路易威登基金会美术馆。《这边或那边》由覆盖了墙面和地板的上百块地毯构成。这些方块地毯是图像与文字的两者的结合：一方面艺术家挪用并重新诠释了不同国家旗帜的图案；另一方面，她又赋予每件地毯上的文字标语以独特的字体，以体现情感、诗意、商业推广与陈词滥调的真理。《这边或那边》是艺术家对语义学这一概念作为文化能指的一种探索。它形如一座宣传（propaganda）中心，通过高密度地本土图像拼贴，质疑着全球移动中身份变化与新的价值观念。
此外，刘诗园亦将展出其备受好评的作品《像泥巴一样简单》。这件始于2013年的大型摄影装置，先后在不同的美术馆以多重形态展出，去年在上海余德耀美术馆作为刘诗园个展的核心作品出现。满墙成百上千张深蓝底色的小照片以方阵排开，每张照片都记录了包括物件、静物、动作或者社会活动在内的内容。艺术家在谷歌（Google）翻译和搜索中获得了不同语言、地域、文化中对“泥巴”这一概念的诠释、延伸与误读。《像泥巴一样简单》最终成就了一部百科全书式的跨文化和视觉再现的研究，它的多变与丰富也回应了文化价值与知识系统的多样性、矛盾与繁复，同样，它亦见证了互联网的扁平化的信息传播与美学。
展位上另会展出艺术家最新为著名艺术杂志《Kaleidoscope》的亚洲特刊委约创作的一组摄影。题为《仙境》，这组摄影夸张、诙谐地将日常食物消费（培根、火腿、香肠、蘑菇、面包等）层层叠叠地拼贴完美的彩色渐变色谱中，亦真亦幻，构成了近乎移动中的多层图像，将这种来自80-90年代的图像美学移植近景物摄影中，铺展开关于今日日常生活幽默、私密却又冷峻，教人反思的图卷。
LIU SHIYUAN, "Wonderland #4", 2016, Archival inkjet print, 23 x 30 cm
刘诗园，1985年生于北京，2009年毕业于北京的中央美术学院，2012年获得纽约视觉艺术学院（SVA）硕士学位。她的作品在世界诸多美术馆、双年展中展出，近期的展览包括：2016银川双年展（银川当代艺术馆，2016）、《教程》Pino Pascali基金会美术馆（意大利Polignano，2016）、《本土——激流与嬗变下的中国艺术》路易威登基金会（巴黎，2016）、《空间三重奏》震旦博物馆（上海，2015）、《CAFA未来展》中央美术学院美术馆（北京，2015）、《重新考虑》Flower Gallery（纽约，2015）、《现在你看到了》白盒子艺术中心（纽约，2014）、第七届深圳雕塑双年展OCT艺术中心（深圳，2012）、《stillspotting nyc》古根海姆美术馆（纽约，2012）等。此外，刘诗园亦获得旧金山卡拉艺术机构的AIR荣誉奖金（2014）和纽约的Paula Rhodes纪念奖金（2012）。
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