Oil on canvas; 140 x 180 cm.
Duan Jianyu was born in 1970, and works and lives in Guangzhou. The brushwork and color in Duan’s work bizarrely bring us to a blurry and slightly annoying place. Her paintings recall a boundary that is mentally non-tangible in our daily lives. Yet they precisely recall the feeling of living in modern China: dynamic and tacky. Maybe the haunting “tackiness” is the product of our pursuing modernization.
Duan Jianyu’s work has been exhibited in: Face, Mingsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2012; Nostalgia East Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition, Korea Foundation, 2011; ChinaChina China! Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts, UK,2009; Farewell to Post-Colonialism–the Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2008; China Welcomes You …Desires, Struggles, New Identities, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, 2007; Octomania, Para-Site Art space, Hong Kong, 2006; 50th International Art Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, 2003; GwangJu Biennale, Korea, 2002, etc. Duan Jianyu was also the winner of the Chinese Contemporary Art Awards 2010, Best Artist.
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