Fu Xiaotong: Land of Serenity 付小桐：寂净之地 February 11 - March 26, 2016 2016年2月11日-3月26日
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Fu Xiaotong: Land of Serenity February 11 - March 26, 2016
Chambers Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening on February 11, 2016 of Fu Xiaotong: Land of Serenity. Born in Shanxi in 1976, Fu Xiaotong received her BA in Fine Arts from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin in 2000 and later studied at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing from which she graduated in 2013. It was while she was at the Academy that she developed a strong affinity for handmade Xuan paper that has been used within China since the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and is still the preferred support for traditional brush and ink painters and calligraphers. Likewise the subject matter that she generally favors – mountains, rocks, water – has a long history in Chinese visual culture although everything else about these dazzlingly white sheets of paper, many of them large in scale, is unconventional and unanticipated. “In the end,” she has written, “I chose handmade Xuan paper to be my primary medium and decided to use needles to pierce holes in the paper to form images.” Fu Xiaotong is adamant in her refusal to mask the surface of the organic Xuan paper she so admires, choosing to reveal its qualities through excavating its surface with a needle hundreds of thousands of times. Over the last five years she has evolved a “language of the needle” consisting of five different ways of approaching the surface of the paper. Early on in the development of this technique, she only perforated the surface of the paper from directly above, but now she also approaches it from the reverse side and at an angle from the left and from the right. Each work is preceded by a detailed preliminary study in which the subject matter is broken down into a complex network of interlocking parts numbered one through five. By now she has such control over the use of the needle that she is able to visualize how different combinations of directional strokes result in convincing representations of rocks and water. Seen from close-up, the texture of her paper works resembles textiles or tapestries in the intricate interlocking of the multiple units of directional needle holes. Tempting as it is to associate Fu’s use of the needle as a sophisticated update of traditional “women’s work,” it soon becomes apparent that her labor-intensive practice has as much in common with certain types of conceptuallybased work. In choosing to title her works according to the number of pinpricks required – from 200,000 or so for a relatively small work to several million for a medium-size one – she calls attention to the procedure through which they are made, detracting from their apparent relationship to the culture-laden and possibly moribund tradition of Shan Shui (traditional Chinese landscape painting). Through her obsessive daily practice, she revitalizes a theme that has been so important throughout Chinese history.
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Fu Xiaotong 付小桐 (b. 1976) Water – 328,440 Pinpricks 328,440 孔之水, 2015 handmade paper 手工宣纸 32 1/4 x 64 1/4 in (82 x 163 cm) FXT-PAP-1531
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Detail of Water – 328,440 Pinpricks 328,440 孔之水 细节图
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Fu Xiaotong 付小桐 (b. 1976) Water – 334,880 Pinpricks 334,880 孔之水, 2015 handmade paper 手工宣纸 35 1/2 x 64 1/4 in (90 x 163 cm) FXT-PAP-1532
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Detail of Water – 334,880 Pinpricks 334,880 孔之水 细节图
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Fu Xiaotong 付小桐 (b. 1976) Mountain – 587,800 Pinpricks 587,800 孔之山, 2015 handmade paper 手工宣纸 80 1/4 x 45 3/4 in (204 x 116 cm) FXT-PAP-1535
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Fu Xiaotong 付小桐 (b. 1976) 300,800 Pinpricks 300,800 孔, 2015 handmade paper 手工宣纸 33 3/4 x 45 3/4 in (86 x 116 cm) FXT-PAP-1529
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Detail of 300,800 Pinpricks 300,800 孔 细节图
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Fu Xiaotong 付小桐 (b. 1976) 208,500 Pinpricks 208,500 孔, 2015 handmade paper 手工宣纸 28 1/4 x 45 3/4 in (72 x 116 cm) FXT-PAP-1534
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Detail of 208,500 Pinpricks 208,500 孔 细节图
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Fu Xiaotong 付小桐 (b. 1976) Spiritual Mountain Series 神山系列, 2015
handmade paper 手工宣纸 Set of 4, each 159 1/2 x 63 3/4 in 共四件，每件 405 x 162 cm FXT-PAP-1513
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Fu Xiaotong 付小桐 (b. 1976) 220,320 Pinpricks 220,320 孔, 2015 handmade paper 手工宣纸 15 3/4 x 80 1/4 in (40 x 204 cm) FXT-PAP-1528
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Fu Xiaotong 付小桐 (b. 1976) Pupil – 380,000 Pinpricks 380,000 瞳孔, 2015 handmade paper 手工宣纸 45 3/4 x 47 1/4 in (116 x 120 cm) FXT-PAP-1533
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Fu Xiaotong 1976 Born in Shanxi, China 2000 BA in Fine Arts, Department of Oil Painting, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China 2013 MA in Fine Arts, Department of Experimental Art, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China 2001 – Present Lecturer at the Institute of the Arts, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China Currently lives and works in Beijing, China Solo Exhibitions 2016 2015 2012
Land of Serenity, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA Land of Serenity, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China Breathe – Fu Xiaotong Paper Exhibition, Nine Thinking Culture of Tianjin, Tianjin, China
Group Exhibitions 2015 Ireland Cultural Festival Art Exhibition, Beijing, China 2014 Cosmos – Multiple Practices in Art, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Polyphony – 21 Kinds of State, Balcony Collective Jianguo Project, Nanjing, China New Visual Boundary – A Variety of Media Art Exhibition, Beijing, China New Acquaintances – Works by Chen Baoyang, Fu Xiaotong, GAMA and Wang Fengge, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA BIENNALE CHINA-ITALIA, Beijing, China To Unveil the Invisible – Pan Jian & Fu Xiaotong Exhibition, Jing Gallery, Beijing, China Room C Plan Second Round, Shone-Show Gallery, Beijing, China CONFRONTION ANITYA, Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art Exhibition Tour of Germany, France, Italy and China Material World at M50, LOFTOOO Gallery, Shanghai, China Legend of Contemporary Female Art, Tianjin, China 2014 New Year Special Collection, Ying Gallery, China 2013 Nature and Spirit, Being3 Gallery, Beijing, China Materials – Substance, Found Museum, Beijing; China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Art Gallery, Beijing, China New Paper, Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China Wedge – Young Artists Exhibition, Sui Feng Art Museum, Beijing, China Postgraduate Graduation Exhibition, China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Art Gallery, Beijing, China Ireland Cultural Festival Art Exhibition – The Siege and Boundary, 798 Art District, Beijing, China 2012 Mizuma & One Gallery Group Exhibition 2012, Mizuma Gallery, Beijing, China Balcony Collective Still Life Exhibition, Lelege Art Space, Beijing, China Ireland Cultural Festival Art Exhibition, Beijing International Trade Centre, Beijing, China 2011 Substance · Elements Manufacturing Laboratory Opening Exhibition of Institute of Experimental Material of China, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, China 2010 Live Like Paintings – the Original Art Exhibition, Chenda Art Gallery, Suzhou, China 2009 City Leaders Exhibition Art Beijing, Beijing, China 2008 The Origin · Drift Exhibition, Hebei, China 2006 Asian Invitational Contemporary Art Exhibition, Korea Theater Exhibition, Jiuchang Art Complex, Beijing, China 2005 Beijing International Art Camp Opening Exhibition, Beijing, China
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