Qin Ga frequents uses materials that contains energy; visible or invisible, such as steel plates, oil barrel, ice, wok, electric wire, gas tank, combustion, electricity, coal briquettes, sexual impulses, body temperature, and fear. As well as having dissection as part of the creation. The power created by the materials put Qin’s piece in the dynamic field. However, power is not what Qin cares about, it’s the conflict and dangerous between power and bodies that he concerns. 

Dark Energy is a subject of study in particle cosmology. Recent studies suggest that the universe is dominated by dark energy rather than the usual energy that can be seen or the powers within solid, liquid or gaseous substances. Dark energy goes so far beyond gravitation that it accelerate the expansion of the universe.

Dark Energy only has the role of substance effect not the properties of substance. In another word, we only know it exists but do not understand its archetype. The dark energy of Qin Ga’s piece is not only from the scientific research, it also stress the undercurrent of his works. The public generally emphasize the positive energy, what so-called positive values. Positive energy plays the role of encouragement but often including tricking everyone, avoiding the reality and hiding the dark corners of the society.

Dark Energy is the stimulus to life, it frees the people from insensible and makes them face the darkness of life. Qin Ga has said “I am interested in sound, space and body. The contradictory and antagonistic natures within them make them the freaks that keep injuring the others. This kind of confrontation and harm is everywhere in our life. It’s the character of our time. That is what I am interested in.” Which mean Qin Ga’s work is that contradict, antagonistic and harmful freak. The embrace of beauty and dangerous created a strong contrast. Like the piece with a woman cover by acne with bleeding nose laying in a bath of rose petal. However the visible contrast is not what Qin is looking for. From the piece of a man who is still sexually aroused even his body is cover with rotten sore due to excessive sex, we could see the artist’s intention of showing the internal contradictions and conflicts and how mankind is always deeply plagued by the difficulty of controlling desire and power. Foucault’s argument is instructive, he argue that when elderly loses desires of material and politic, with all experience they could possibly gain throughout the time, the elderly became his own man. Truly understand oneself and reaches the perfect balance of control and satisfaction. Therefore, ageing should not be consider as the end of life or seen as the atrophy of life.

CURATOR：Duan Jun
PRESENTED BY：Sun Yongzeng
ASSISTANT CURATOR：Xie Jinyuan
PROJECT COOPERATION：Liu Chenya, Wu Ling
ORGANIZER：White Box Museum Of Art
OPENING：Saturday, January 12, 2013, 4p.m
DATES：January 12, 2013-March 5, 2013
MUSEUM OPENING HOURS：10：00-17：30, Tuseday-Sunday
VENUE：WHITE BOX MUSEUM OF ART, 798 Art Dist., No.2 Jiu Xianqiao Road, Chaoyang Dist., Beijing, China

Dark Energy—works of Qin Ga

Duan Jun

 

Qin Gafrequents uses materials that contains energy; visible or invisible, such as steel plates, oil barrel, ice, wok, electric wire, gas tank, combustion,electricity,coal briquettes,sexual impulses, body temperature, and fear. As well as having dissection as part of the creation. The power created by the materials put Qin’s piece in the dynamic field. However, power is not what Qin cares about, it’s the conflict and dangerous between power and bodies that he concerns.

Dark Energy is a subject of study in particle cosmology. Recent studies suggest that the universe is dominated by dark energy rather than the usual energy that can be seen or the powers within solid, liquid or gaseous substances. Dark energy goes so far beyond gravitation that it accelerate the expansion of the universe.

Dark Energy only has the role of substance effect not the properties of substance. In another word, we only know it exists but do not understand its archetype. The dark energy of Qin Ga’s piece is not only from the scientific research, it also stress the undercurrent of his works. The public generally emphasize the positive energy, what so-called positive values. Positive energy plays the role of encouragement but often including tricking everyone, avoiding the reality and hiding the dark corners of the society.

Dark Energy is the stimulus to life, it frees the people from insensible and makes them face the darkness of life. Qin Ga has said “I am interested in sound, space and body. The contradictory and antagonistic natures within them make them the freaks that keep injuring the others. This kind of confrontation and harm is everywhere in our life. It’s the character of our time. That is what I am interested in.” Which mean Qin Ga’s work is that contradict, antagonistic and harmful freak. The embrace of beauty and dangerous created a strong contrast. Like the piece with a woman cover by acne with bleeding nose laying in a bath of rose petal. However the visible contrast is not what Qin is looking for. From the piece of a man who is still sexually aroused even his body is cover with rotten sore due to excessive sex, we could see the artist’s intention of showing the internal contradictions and conflicts and how mankind is always deeply plagued by the difficulty of controlling desire and power. Foucault’s argument is instructive, he argue that when elderly loses desires of material and politic, with all experience they could possibly gain throughout the time, the elderly became his own man. Truly understand oneself and reaches the perfect balance of control and satisfaction. Therefore, ageing should not be consider as the end of life or seen as the atrophy of life.

Contemporary art in China is young and strong, it was born in the time of upheaval, the disease of the era is its value. However, in recent years, Chinese contemporary art trends to narrow down to the concepts of self-center. In respond to this, Qin has his attitude- draw your circle as you wish, it is too far away from our soil to matters anyway. Qin’s works are from the reality, he uses materials of daily life, however, he take the day to day matter beyond the daily. With the dark energy, Qin’s piece go beyond the daily level, the dark energy of his piece can be felt directly by the body, the result is not immediate, it needs to be process by a long period of time. As the idiom said, drips of water could penetrate stones, Qin’s works imperceptibly continue influence the society.

Qin Gaalso favors animals in his creations, especially those related with Mongolians’ daily and military life such as donkey, wolves, eagles and horses. In Mongolian’s legend there were two horses belong to Genghis Khan, they were strong and powerful, valiant and handsome, others are far inferior to them. Qin made the two horse and put them into pieces, accumulated the pieces in to a sculpture.It seems that Qin is recalling the glorious history of Mongolian, however he is wary of how he treat the national sentiment or exotic practice toward Mongolia. He uses his experience and nomadic culture of Mongolia to support his understanding of the world and the life he choose.

It is difficult to understand Qin Ga’s work separately. Since the late 1990s, his works have been coherent, he purposely break the boundaries between the pieces. His sculpture become turmoil, while mankind’s experience and perception cannot last forever, within Qin’s turmoil one’s experience and awareness retained as the most valuable and dignified.

 

Dec 2012