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 ang Gongxin (1960 Beijing) is one of China's foremost video artists. A recurring theme in his pieces is myth versus reality. For "The Sky of Brooklyn: Digging a Hole in Beijing" (1995), Wang dug a hole in his Beijing home and placed a monitor inside to show video footage of the Brooklyn sky. The work was a clever spin on the age-old American childhood dream of digging a hole to China and the Chinese idiom of "viewing the world from a well." For "Myth Powder" (1997), Wang created a fake commercial touting a mythical powder with incredible curative powers. He mixed that with footage he shot of people in public parks doing qigong-type exercises and chanting to themselves phrases such as "Thoughts are normal" and "Inflammation is going down." Packets of myth powder (in reality, flour) were displayed during the video screening. Wang and his wife Lin Tianmiao produced "Here? Or There?" a multimedia commentary on China's pell-mell urban transformation and people's relationship to their environment. Wang and his wife live and work in Beijing. |
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Dinner Table, 2006, Video installation, 05′10″
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My Sun, 2000, 3 Screen video installation, 07′25″
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Brooklyn’s Heaven,1995.3, Performance, video, installation
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Here? or There? No.13, Performance Photograph, 34×42cm (cooperate with Lin Tianmiao)
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Here? or There? No.5, Performance Photograph, 34×42cm (cooperate with Lin Tianmiao)
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Here? or There? No.1, Performance Photograph, 34×42cm (cooperate with Lin Tianmiao)
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Red Doors (in Paris) , 2002
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Solo Exhibitions:
2007
All about Laughter - humor in contemporary art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2005
“Between Past and Future”, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK
“About Beauty”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
“Soul”, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Bruges, Belgium
2004
“Between Past and Future”, ICP and Museum of Asia Society, New York, USA
2003
“Cyber Asia-media Art In The Near Future”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
2002
“Wang GongXin from Beijing” SOLO Exhibition, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Australia
2001
“Non-Linear Narrative”, The Gallery of China Academy of Fine Art, Hangzhou, China
“My Sun”, Art Space, Sydney, Australia
“Dream”, Atlantis Gallery, London, UK
1998
“Life”, Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing, China
“Trace of existence”, Art Now Studio, Beijing, China
1995
“BIAO” SOLO Show, Halle 10. Ludwingsburg, Germany |
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