The Opposite House in partnership with F2 Gallery will exhibit work by artist Feng Shu in the hotel’s atrium from July 2 to September 27, 2009
The pieces on display are from his POST PERIOD INSECT series and include a larger than “insect” life praying mantis, mosquito, beetle, scorpion, dragonfly, bee and spider. Also part of the exhibition is a motorbike, made of 20,000 small plastic squares. This piece stands in obvious stark contrast to the almost romantic and fairy tale like insects, yet it perfectly blends into the scene with its delicate structure.
“My insects, to some extent, mean that I regard my childhood with fondness and that I have great expectations for the future.” says Feng Shu about his work.
The young artist employs both traditional Chinese ceramic art and modern industries as a tool and inspiration for his work. The former represents the royal class’ ideology, which is still influential to the contemporary Chinese aesthetic, while the latter, influenced by artistic movements in Japan and North America, speaks of humanity.
The detailed and refined painted surfaces of Feng Shu’s pieces combined with steel limbs, may give a science fiction like impression. Some of the colors and patterns he uses remind of ceramics dated to the Ming-Qing dynasty. Surfaces of the objects are hand painted in blue and white or pastel floral patterns, abstract geometric triangles or contemporary irregular blobs.
In Feng Shu’s conception, the mix of painted ceramic bodies and chrome appendages came to him with the idea of flight—the notion that when everything is new, “It is easy to fly away” and to reinvent one-self.
The Beijing based artist was born in 1981 and earned his Bachelor and Master of Fine Art degrees from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2005 and 2009 respectively.
As a young emerging artist, his work has already been shown by the following museums from home and abroad: China National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; Sara Hildén Art Museum, Finland and International Ceramics Museum, Italy.
Feng’s work is also in many public and private collections in China, Europe, USA and Mexico, among others.
The pieces on display are from his POST PERIOD INSECT series and include a larger than “insect” life praying mantis, mosquito, beetle, scorpion, dragonfly, bee and spider. Also part of the exhibition is a motorbike, made of 20,000 small plastic squares. This piece stands in obvious stark contrast to the almost romantic and fairy tale like insects, yet it perfectly blends into the scene with its delicate structure.
“My insects, to some extent, mean that I regard my childhood with fondness and that I have great expectations for the future.” says Feng Shu about his work.
The young artist employs both traditional Chinese ceramic art and modern industries as a tool and inspiration for his work. The former represents the royal class’ ideology, which is still influential to the contemporary Chinese aesthetic, while the latter, influenced by artistic movements in Japan and North America, speaks of humanity.
The detailed and refined painted surfaces of Feng Shu’s pieces combined with steel limbs, may give a science fiction like impression. Some of the colors and patterns he uses remind of ceramics dated to the Ming-Qing dynasty. Surfaces of the objects are hand painted in blue and white or pastel floral patterns, abstract geometric triangles or contemporary irregular blobs.
In Feng Shu’s conception, the mix of painted ceramic bodies and chrome appendages came to him with the idea of flight—the notion that when everything is new, “It is easy to fly away” and to reinvent one-self.
The Beijing based artist was born in 1981 and earned his Bachelor and Master of Fine Art degrees from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2005 and 2009 respectively.
As a young emerging artist, his work has already been shown by the following museums from home and abroad: China National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; Sara Hildén Art Museum, Finland and International Ceramics Museum, Italy.
Feng’s work is also in many public and private collections in China, Europe, USA and Mexico, among others.
Artwork
Dragonfly, 2008