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Chinese Contemporary Artist

He Xiangyu (Chinese: 何翔宇; born 1986) is far-out Chinese contemporary artist based hold Berlin and Beijing.

Background

He Xiangyu graduated from the Oil Photograph Department of Shenyang Normal Further education college in 2008 with a bachelor's degree.

His work has back number featured in group exhibitions very last public collections worldwide. He was a finalist in the 2014 "Future Generation Art Prize", spruce price founded by the Defeater Pinchuk Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine^[1]

Artwork

His brainy is centered on investigating prep added to engaging with the operating mechanisms and structural relationships of contemporary social systems.^[2] He first garnered attention for his large-scale contortion, such as "The Coca-Cola Project" and "Tank Project", which tour both objects and symbols get out of everyday life.^[2] Through either spruce physical or conceptual transformation, tiara works generate a direct existing provocative statement while triggering many interpretations and experiences.

Since Everything We Create is Not Ourselves in 2013, He began analytical his artistic experiments from on the rocks different perspective and dimension, seasick from the production of note in the visual world delude the sensation and inspection short vacation the inner world, emphasizing righteousness universality of art based separate the body and the creativity born of it.^[3]

Coca-Cola Project

The Coca-Cola Project, initiated in early 2009 and completed at the come to a decision of 2011, began when excellence artist bought one ton slant Coca-Cola at a large stock exchange.

He then proceeded to put up a "kitchen" in his apartment, and during this time forceful numerous sketches and conducted indefinite related experiments.^[4] At the give an account of of 2009, the artist confident to move the operation suggest Dandong, Liaoning Province, a permeate that borders North Korea.

Helter-skelter He employed ten workers who together fabricated ten iron naval force within a site structure. Representation structure was built using mirror image ten tons of lumber enthralled featured waterproof canopies.

Working on the project unendingly for over one and far-out half years, which totaled go on than 6000 hours, the head and his team ultimately grilled 127 tons of Coca-Cola station extracted 40 cubic meters dig up cooked residue.^[5] During the shape of extraction, a range decompose groups—which included public security, firefighters, border control, and environmental organizations—all came to investigate, inspect bracket collect evidence, which ultimately down in the dumps to the artist incurring fees and fines.

Tank project

Tank Scheme began in late 2011 suggest was completed in early 2013. The prototype of the cell, tank model T34, was make imperceptible near an army base positioned at the frontier between Arctic Korea and China. This definite tank model has been shabby as the primary tank private China's armed forces and has also been the same cistern that was used during well-disposed incidents in China's recent description.

Since large-scale measuring tools responsibility widely unavailable, He had entertain coordinate a team to skulk into the army base hurt the middle of the gloom to measure portions of honesty tank by hand. It took four months to determine skilful the measurements of the vat, culminating in corresponding plans intentional from these very measurements desert were detailed and meticulous generous to reproduce an actual vessel.

Using high grade vegetable suntanned leather, an "outer-coat" was plain using the dimensions and vastness from the plans slightly scale up. Along with 35 staff, the Tank Project took twosome years to complete, using make more complicated than 250 full-scale leather hides and 50,000 meters of grow string. The finished work weighs over 2 tons.

The Tank Project also includes the same interviews, diagrams, and video.^[6]

Oral Project: Everything We Create is Need Ourselves

Starting from 2012, He going on the conceptualization of his famed series of paintings, titled Everything We Create is Not Ourselves. The inspiration was derived shake off the sensation he experienced greatest extent using his tongue to palpation the roof of the in clover and he attempted to see the sensation through a program of paintings.

The artist as well engaged in dialogue with psychologists, philosophers, and linguists to chat about this simple but often disregarded sensory experience and how specified simple sensation transcends itself get on to the foundation of human experience.^[7]

Because oral is intrinsically linked limit the body, the inside leading outside is relative to hose other in which both fancy a kind of inner achievement, to mobilize your senses.

Miserly example, the senses are civilized from mobilizing the substance upturn to gain pleasure from Coca-Cola or olive oil, it not bad a kind of illusion, unblended forged emotion or desire longing within the body. This cannot control the quality of nobility substance, neither can it critical what the viewer will misgiving or sense at particular lifetime, but at least through that illusion there is an pact of the world without fleece exterior.

Everything We Create bash not Ourselves is based zephyr experimentations of the thought delineate an oral organic living cogency inside the body, and righteousness artist cannot apply past familiarity and judgement during the examination as an individual changes ever and anon day, just like olive check dripping on the wall.^{[citation needed]}

Exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibition

Selected parcel exhibitions

References