Encounter The Real - The Psychological painting of Xin Haizhou
May 19 - Jun 18, 2013
May 19 - Jun 18, 2013
Press Release
After Xin Haizhou’s Solo Exhibition at Today Art Museum in 2008，the brand new solo exhibition of Xin Haizhou will open at White Box Museum of Art on May 19th 2013.The exhibition is curated by critic Duan Jun，scheduled from May 19 to June 18 2013.The essential works of Xin Haizhou form last five years will be rerealed，as to present the phased thinking about art，life and the society.
The Real is a kind of psychoanalysis concept from the French psychologist Lacan. The real does not mean the real life or reality, but the crossroads of reality and illusion. For example, the real, just like the perspective vanishing point in painting, exists for real, although it is can’t be described. Recently, the field that Xin Haizhou is exploring just is the real, especially the actor’s life his presents. For the actors, the realities are their real life, and the performances are also their real life, so the performance is not all illusion. The overlapping area of the real life and the performances is the point that Xin Haizhou focuses on, and the main difficulty is that the real can’t be described by the words or forms directly, it can only indirectly maps to or projects on a certain form.
CURATOR: Duan Jun PRESENTED BY: Sun Yongzeng
EXHIBITION DIRECTOR: Liu Chenya
EXHIBITION COOPERATION: Cao Maochao
ORGANIZER: White Box Museum of Art
OPENING: 16:00, Sunday 19th May, 2013
DATE: May 19- June 18, 2013
MUSEUM OPENING HOURS: 10:00- 18:00, Tuesday- Sunday
VENUE: WHITE BOX MUSEUM OF ART, 798 Art Dist., NO.2 Jiu Xianqiao Road, Chaoyang Dist., Beijing, China
Curator Article
The Real is a kind of psychoanalysis concept from the French psychologist Lacan. The real does not mean the real life or reality, but the crossroads of reality and illusion. For example, the real, just like the perspective vanishing point in painting, exists for real, although it is can’t be described. Recently, the field that Xin Haizhou is exploring just is the real, especially the actor’s life his presents. For the actors, the realities are their real life, and the performances are also their real life, so the performance is not all illusion. The overlapping area of the real life and the performances is the point that Xin Haizhou focuses on, and the main difficulty is that the real can’t be described by the words or forms directly, it can only indirectly maps to or projects on a certain form.
There are many painters maintain vigilance at the painting Proficiency in Chinese contemporary art world. They initiatively damage the smooth or completeness of the screen to create the picture with strangeness or contingency. Xin Haizhou creates the lines or clumps that seem to be in color by rubing lines on the canvas, which interferes the three-dimensional illusion of the screen and makes the picture form a crossed situation of plane and stereoscopic, then the screen is no longer just a mirror of the world. Moreover, Xin Haizhou uses his consistent sketches and wrinkle method effect, letting the screen get rid of a realistic suspects, thus showing a feeling of alienation of the characters and scenes.
What makes Xin Haizhou fascinated, but also troubled is that encountering the Real is a happy and painful thing, for the real world cannot be caught, though it really exist. Maybe the life of performance is virtual life, but its essence is a promising crack which the real open up in reality, and it clears a way to encounter the real. The value of the real existing is that it tells us that real life is not all, we still have freedom of fantasy.
Installation View
Artworks
- Change Sky Pencil on paper 76x56cm 2012
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