Three decades of experience lead me to be numb today. I am running away from the mechanical and inertia thinking, avoiding single and general conclusions, and firmly and constantly seeking the real answer to convince myself about my thoughts. Linking up the thought result and the concept performed in the plastic, I am combing through my memories and expressing my thoughts with the use of the plastic, standing firmly in a state of confusion while firmly being clear. It is better to expose and criticize myself than to disentangle history, to establish an individual world value.

When creating a work, I have to refine the concept, to ponder the style, to tolerate production and to dismantle the barriers.

The rough light reflected from the unadorned world activates our paralytic nerves, and the personal texture, folding, the twisted, concave-convex, fracture, and broken surface of the works, is similar to the cerebral gyri and sulci and the uniqueness is imprinted on my mind.

It is stating the former brilliant times through the texture of overweight stainless steel and golden titanium. Even if it is radiantly shining, it will cool down over time. Leaving only the golden remaining light.

--Qiang Yong

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Duration: December 17 – 22, 2012

Location: Exhibition Hall of the 2nd Floor of School of Design, CAFA

About Qiang Yong

1969 Born in Shandong Province

1988-1991 Studied in the Department of Crafts and Arts, China Textile University (now Donghua University)

1991 Overseas studied in Japan

1993-1997 Studied in the Department of Plastic of Tokyo Musashino University of Arts in Japan and majored in Crafts and Industry Design, with a bachelor degree

1997-1999 Studied in the Department of Plastic of Tokyo Musashino University of Arts in Japan and majored in Crafts and Industry Design, with a master degree

1999-2001 Worked in Japan Sankei Com., Ltd.

2001-2004 Worked as a designer in Shanghai Shengcheng Space Com., Ltd.

From Sept. 2004 to today Worked as a teacher in School of Design, CAFA

Awards:

2003 Works “New Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival” won the Excellent Award in Chinese Post Personalized Stamp Design Exhibition in Taiwan China

1999 Works “Left Silence” won the Selected Producing Graduate Award in the Graduate Exhibition of Tokyo Musashino University of Arts in Japan

1998 Works “Encountering the immortal Cliff” won the Fine Art Prize of Ashahi Beer in the 3rd Fine Art Exhibition for Foreign Students from Japan Ashahi Beer Art and Culture Consortium

1989 Won the highest award from the Department of Crafts and Arts, China Textile University (now Donghua University)

Collections:

1997 “Bridges Town” was collected by Matsuo Scholarship Foundation in Japan

1997 “Shigatsi’s Flat” and “Shore of Lancang River” collected by Tokyo Ginza Artist Guild Hall in Japan

1997 “Water Town” was collected by Yingshan Com., Ltd. in Japan

Selected Exhibitions

2003 Chinese Post Personalized Stamp Design Exhibition, “New Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival”, Taiwan, China

2001 Participating the design of the 21 Presidents Conference Hall for China Shanghai APEC Conference, Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, China

2000 “2000TODAY’S ART TEXTILE-SUMMER”, “Shell”, Fiber Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2000 Modern Fiber Touring Exhibition, “Untitled”, Tokyo, Kyushu Kagoshima, Japan

1999 Selected Works Exhibition from Musashino University of Arts, “The Left Silence”, Art Museum of Musashino University of Arts, Tokyo, Japan

1999 Kodaira International Exchange Art Exhibition, “The Legend of Zen”, Kodaira International Exchange Center, Tokyo, Japan

1999 “99TODAY’S ART TEXTILE-SUMMER”, “Skelton of the Earth”, Ginza MSB Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1998 “98 TODAY’S ART TEXTILE FORMATION X2”, “The Experience of a Seed”, Maronia Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1998 “Excavation” Solo Exhibition by Yong Qiang, GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

1998 “Space” Solo Exhibition by Yong Qiang, NW HOUSE Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1998 Group Exhibition of New Generations from China, Japan and Korea, “Shapes of World’s Gestos”, Wuyuan Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan, China

1998 The 3rd Fine Art Exhibition for Foreign Students, “Encountering the Immortal Cliff”, Tokyo Hall Gallery, Japan

1997 Exhibition of Tokyo Musashino University of Arts in Japan, “108 Memories”, Asada Fine Arts and Crafts Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1997 “Trip to Japan: Exhibition of Sketch and Photography by Qiang Yong”, Tokyo Ginza Artist Guild Hall, Japan

1997 “97 Today’s Art Textile-Summer”, “Untitled”, Tokyo Ginza MSB Art Museum, Japan

1989 Exhibition of the Department of Crafts and Arts, China Textile University (now Donghua University), Shanghai, China