Planed by an independent curator Dai Zhuoqun, “Superfluous Things” art project features the 5th Round of works by Yan Bing since August 3, 2013. Graduated from the Department of Oil Painting, CAFA, Yan Bing focused on the creation of installation in his ealier development, through the use of cowhide leather, soil, linen and things of daily life. He pursues an artistic experience in the process which is similar to the agricultural labor, while this smallholder’s farming method, properly deals with the relationship between artist’s facing self history and the open reality. He chooses to continue the life experience of agricultural labor to retain the increasingly cramped poetic space between modern social humanity and scenery.

The “Superfluous Things” project features a series of oil paintings of the artist, changing media but creative consciousness still projected on the speculations between human beings and things, human beings and the society, psychological, emotional and physical qualities and the Nature.

From his earlier use of cowhide leather as the materials, to his later use of soil, linen and even things of daily life, artist’s awareness of issue has always focused and projected on the speculations between human beings and things, human beings and the society, psychological, emotional and physical qualities and the Nature. His works are the reflection of his emotion by the description of things, in addition to show the related situations among things, due to his experiences, which reveals the possibility and expected quality of existence; behind his works is not curious and admired of the local customs, but a concentration and contemplation in the world of country life, which contains a praise for the scenery and things, and a living lyric. In the spiritual undercurrent of Yan Bing, the attention to humanity is overriding all the coordinates, his creations refresh human’s ways of perception, to illuminate the nature of things, because of human’s intervention, all things have humanity, and in such a complex, delicate and couldn’t described secret territory, carrying things of the diverse and nothingness, to express the power of deep silence.

About the exhibition

Curator: Dai Zhuoqun

Publisher: Xia Jifeng

Exhibition Director: Tong Juanjuan

Host: Hive Centre for Contemporary Art

Opening Time: September 14, 2013, 16:00 pm

Duration: September 14 – October 13, 2013

Venue: Hive Centre for Contemporary Art

Address: E06, 798 Art Zone, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Rd, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

Courtesy of the artist and Hive Centre for Contemporary Art.

Translated by Chen Peihua and edited by Sue/CAFA ART INFO