LI QING: BLOW –UP

Curator: Zoe Zhang Bing

9M2 Museum,Goethe Institute, Department for Culture and Education of the General consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany in Shanghai,Shanghai

21 November to 19 December 2014

Blow-up by artist Li Qing is specially made for Consuming Moods, 2014’s annual project of 9m2 Museum. “Blow-up” refers to a method to access the reality by amplifying details of objects.


 

Exhibition view of Li Qing : BLOW-UP, 9M2 Museum,Shanghai

 

Exhibition view of Li Qing : BLOW-UP, 9M2 Museum,Shanghai

Blow-up by artist Li Qing is specially made for Consuming Moods, 2014’s annual project of 9m2 Museum. “Blow-up” refers to a method to access the reality by amplifying details of objects. Though the truth may not exist after all, the entire process of perception is what actually matters.

 

The project parodies a public space that is private in nature, of which the simple, clean exterior in a geometric cross-shaped structure is in contrast to the provisional, rough interior. Looking from a window of the space, visitors can see virtual views outside, which are amplified details of the advertising images in the art magazines collected by the artist.

 

These narrow spaces decorated with drawings and images make themselves and other everyday spaces referred to as art (i.e. hotels, restaurants, stores and entertainment venues) be imbued with a similar sense of abruptness and absurdity. The information contained in these drawings and images remind us of the past enthusiasm and severity of Chinese contemporary art, which are as incompatible with the present time and depressing as all obsolete consumer goods.

 

In Blow-up, through changes between time and space, art, like other consumer goods, becomes an object of desire amplified by media so excessively that their original significance has been eliminated, with nothing but a shadow of nihility left. From art to everydayness and then to nihility, the twists and turns along the way are revealed.

 

Exhibition view of Li Qing : BLOW-UP, 9M2 Museum,Shanghai

 

Exhibition view of Li Qing : BLOW-UP, 9M2 Museum,Shanghai

 

Exhibition view of Li Qing : BLOW-UP, 9M2 Museum,Shanghai

 

Exhibition view of Li Qing : BLOW-UP, 9M2 Museum,Shanghai

 

Exhibition view of Li Qing : BLOW-UP, 9M2 Museum,Shanghai

 

Exhibition view of Li Qing : BLOW-UP, 9M2 Museum,Shanghai

Li Qing,Blow-Up · Shanghai Exhibition Center

magazine page 26 x 26 cm & wood, plexiglass, metal, oil color 109 x 98 x 7 cm 2014

Li Qing,Blow-Up · Nail House

magazine page 26 x 26 cm & wood, plexiglass, metal, oil color 98 x 88 x 7 cm 2014

Li Qing,Blow-Up·Candle Houses

magazine page 29 x 21 cm & wood, plexiglass, metal, oil color 98 x 88 x 7 cm 2014

Li Qing,Blow-Up · Caochangdi

magazine page 26 x 26 cm & wood, plexiglass, metal, oil color 86 x 78 x 6.5 cm 2014


 

 

 

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