In the Mood for Paper
Mar 14 - Apr 13, 2009
Inspired by the title of the movie "In The Mood For Love", "In The Mood For Paper" is a follow-up of the acclaimed "Crouching Paper, Hidden Dragon" works on paper show, a group show of solely Chinese contemporary artists held at F2 Gallery in 2008. The "lighter" title reflects the very different economical situation in which it's taking place; a severe global crisis that has put a damper on everyone's mood for quite sometime now.
Group Show
Dec 6 - Mar 1, 2009
A group exhibition featuring a collection of F2 Gallery artists' works from the recent years.
Stella Lai (b. 1975)
Fat Children Ruined My Life
Sep 27 - Nov 26, 2008
Having grown up as a Chinese in Hong Kong, once a British colony and received education in California, Lai's trans-cultural experience offers her a unique perspective on China in a world of globalization and westernization. Consumerism brings to the East the Western values, which people in China begin to admire and adapt themselves to.
Multiple Realities
Aug 10 - Sep 20, 2008
Curated by Beijing-based art critic Maya Kóvskaya, "Multiple Realities" examines the rhizomatically recursive and polyvalent nature of the world in which we live, through the multidisciplinary art practices of 11 contemporary artists, using oil painting, video, mixed media installation, sculpture, experimental ink wash, and light box photography installation to investigate the multiplicity at the core of the human condition.
Crouching Paper, Hidden Dragon
Apr 6 - May 18, 2008
Crouching Paper, Hidden Dragon offers viewers a chance to slow down and take in one of Chinese contemporary art’s most neglected art forms: works on paper. The exhibition provides us with no quick fixes here – no prints, for instance, or photography – but each piece is as individual as the hand that made it.
Saul Zanolari (b. 1977)
Post-human
Mar 1 - Mar 30, 2008
In 1992 Jeffrey Deitch invented the term “Post-human” to define an artistic current which now numbers, among others, Matthew Barney and Jeff Koons. Post-human is the world where we now live, a world of transformation, manipulation and contrivance which is a consequence of scientific and technological advancement, especially in the field of genetics: we are no longer bound to our original appearance, as we now have the opportunity to rebuild and totally change ourselves, passing from a natural human evolution to an artificial one.
Zhu Fadong (b. 1960)
Seeking Zhu Fadong
Jan 19 - Feb 25, 2008
Zhu Fadong was born in Kunming of the province of Yunnan in 1960. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Yunnan Art Institute in 1985. As an independent artist for more than a decade, his works have attracted a tremendous amount of attention in the art world. These work include Announcement of a Missing Person, This Person is For Sale, Lifestyle, and Will Comrade Zhu Fadong Please Leave the Room First.
Clayton Brothers (b. 1963)
PATIENT
Nov 17 - Jan 14, 2008
After the indelible statements made by their work at Art Basel (Miami), The Armory Show (New York) and the upcoming Saatchi Gallery (London) Triumph of Painting, and acclaimed group and solo exhibitions in the United States and Europe, Los Angeles based artists Rob and Christian Clayton continue to explore the human condition in their new body of paintings and works on paper.