德萨北京 DE SARTHE BEIJING

Artist | Wang Guofeng

Exhibition | Probe

Opening | November 8, 3 - 6 pm

Duration | November 8, 2015-Feburary 25, 2016

Opening hours | Tuesday - Sunday, 10:30 am - 6:30 pm

Address | DE SARTHE BEIJING, 328 D Caochangdi, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100015

艺术家｜王国锋

展览｜探针

开幕｜11月8日下午 3 - 6 时

展期｜2015 年 11月8日至 2016年2月25日

地址｜北京市朝阳区草场地艺术区 328-D 德萨北京

Wang Guofeng (1967) has worked in a variety of media, from photography, video, drawing and installation. Photography has been his main artistic language since 2006. The imagery resulting from his practice mainly follows two orientations: one focuses on photographing the symbolic political spectacles; the other focuses on the creation of the image from a conceptual stance.  

For his first solo show in Beijing, Wang Guofeng has completely broken himself free from his previous artform and practice. Moving away from his symbolic political iconography as well as his conceptualized two-dimensional imagery, he constructs an image into a complex three-dimensional space. By transforming a two-dimensional image into a spatial installation, he was able to reach into the core essence of the “image”.

王国锋（b.1967）是著名的当代影像艺术家。他的作品形式广泛，涵盖摄影、录像、绘画及装置作品。自2006年以来，他开始使用摄影作为艺术创作的主要媒介。他的图像艺术主要涵盖了两个方向： 一是专注象征性政治图像的摄影；一是从纯粹观念的角度出发的图像创作。

Lin Jingjing: Tomorrow Was Wonderful 

DE SARTHE BEIJING current exhibition “Lin Jingjing: Tomorrow Was Wonderful” is showcasing various installations and canvas works (by print, acrylic and thread) from Beijing-based female artist Lin Jingjing. 

Exhibition Date: 13th June - 2nd August, 2015

Gallery Venue: de Sarthe Beijing, Caochangdi 328-d, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China 

Lin Jingjing 林菁菁, China Dream: Waiting for the Miracle 中国梦: 等待奇迹, 2015, Mixed media on canvas 综合材料, 130 x 130 cm 

DE SARTHE BEIJING is pleased to announce the second exhibition at their newly opened Beijing gallery: ‘Lin Jingjing: Tomorrow was Wonderful’, a solo exhibition from Beijing-based artist Lin Jingjing. Lin Jingjing is well known for her mixed media works on canvas, installations, and performance pieces, which commonly feature thread and embroidery. The exhibition will open on Saturday June 13th, 2015, at 4pm.

In her ‘China Dream’ series, the artist plays on one of the biggest buzzwords of current Chinese society. The ‘China Dream’ is a recurring slogan in China’s current society, used to describe roles and aspirations of individuals and also those of the nation. Through her works, Lin examines how this ‘dream’ can have different interpretations for each person and invites her audience to consider these interpretations, and to compare and contrast them to the wider national context.

The exhibition features installations and sculpture alongside Lin Jingjing’s surreally-colored canvases, allowing the viewer to lose their sense of reality and become immersed in hers, journeying through her imagination as she guides them through her interpretation of contemporary society.

'Tomorrow Was wonderful' invites us to look back and consider what our aspirations had been like for the present. In this time dominated by the idea of the collective 'Dream', the future is beautiful, a time of progress and achievement. However, Lin suggests that perhaps when we get there, we will look back on our visions for tomorrow and see warm memories born of optimism rather than a reflection of reality.

For more information, please visit de Sarthe Gallery