Mu Boyan was born in 1976 in Jinan, Shandong Province of China. Mu graduated from the Sculpture Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts with master’s degree in 2005. In 2003, Mu Boyan displayed his series work, “Bath Center” in the public bath house of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. It is said, that group of sculpture was accepted to make for a bath center a job for living. After that, Mu Boyan has concentrated continuously on portraying the images of a fat person. The newest solo exhibition of Mu Boyan at Aye Gallery will be on view until March 13th, 2013.

The fat in the west, can be understood the bodily overload caused by unscientifically diet structure, this crowd even occupy about 50% in some countries, it’s really ordinary but in China, when it mentions the fat person, it symbolizes the life abundance. Today, the gap between rich and poor enlarges day by day, the fatty no longer has the symbolic significance as “l(fā)aughing than growing fat,” but is often explained visually as “occupying social resources excessively.” Only the name of “young fatty” has the commendatory meaning of cuteness. In the series work of “Fatty” looking from the sculpture dimensions, the fat person is separated into two extreme sorts: one is too extremely huge to be unable to tolerate, it may press the floor sinking; another one is extremely miniature, the movement is lively, without the weight feeling completely free. More or less, the artist wants to tell us “Fatty” exists in each body of us.

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About the exhibition

Duration: January 13 through March 13, 2013

Venue: Aye Gallery

Tel: +86 10 8422 1726/1030

Fax: +86 10 8422 1728

Address: Room 601, Unit 3, Yonghe Garden, Dongcheng District 100013, Beijing

Email: aye@ayegallery.com

Opening Hours: 10 am-6pm, every Tuesday to Sunday with appointment

About Mu Boyan

1976 Born in Jinan, Shangdong Province

1997 Graduated from the Fine Arts School of China Central Academy of Fine Arts

2002 Graduated from the Sculpture Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts

2005 Graduated from the Sculpture Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts with master’s degree

Solo Exhibitions

2013 “Process - Mu Boyan Works 2012”, Aye Gallery, Beijing

2009 “Year Month Day”, Mu Boyan’s New Solo Exhibition, Aye Gallery, Beijing

2007 “Fatty at Aye Gallery”, Aye Gallery, Beijing

Group Exhibitions

2012 “Ctrl+N Non-Linear Practice – 2012 Gwangju Biennale Special Exhibition”, Gwangju Museum of Art, Korea

“Chinese Public Art - Kulturjahr Chinas in Deutschland 2012”, Kassel, Germany

“Sculpture China”, CAFA Art Centre, Beijing

“Hong Kong Art Walk,” Wellington Gallery, Hong Kong

“Art HK12”, Aye Gallery, Hong Kong

2010 “The 8th Shanghai Biennale--Rehearsal”, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai

“Art Wave”, Injoy Museum of Art, Beijing, China

“Datong International Sculpture Biennale”, Datong He Yang Art Musuem, Shanxi

“East/West: Visually Speaking”, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA

2009 “Chinettik”, Museum Tinguely, Basel

“Confliction and Confrontation”, AD Annual Fine Art Collection. TAD Associates INC. Interior Design, Shanghai, China

“Art Exhibition For Charity”, Special Charity Event on Wenchuan Earthquakes Anniversary, National Agriculture Exhibition Center, Beijing

“Chin’s Revision”, Eastation Gallery, Beijing

“Micro Paradise”, Art Gallery, Taipei

“Chinetik”, A collaboration between Museum Tinguely and Littmann Kulturprojekte, Basel, Switzerland

2008 “China’ Revision”, Ludwig Museum in Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz, Germany

“Chinese Fantasies”-Found Museum Grand Opening, Found Museum, China

“Together — the Nominated Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture”, Zero Field, Beijing, China

2007 “Origin”-The First Annual Moon River Sculpture Festival

2006 “Naughty Kids”-the Chinese Problem Generation Born After 1970, Star Gallery, Beijing

2005 “A Century of Sculpture”, Shanghai City Sculpture Art Center Opening Naughty Kids, The Chinese Problem Generation Born After 1970, Star Gallery, Beijing

2004 The Second Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu, China

2003 “Bath Center-Solo Exhibition”, the Bathhouse in Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

Image Courtesy Aye Gallery.