Pull Up the Stake

Pull Up The Stake

Fan Jiupeng, Feng Zhixuan, Jiang Fang, Liu Guangli, Ma Qiusha, Na Buqi, Qi Xing and Wang Changcun 

19th of January, 2019 - 24th of March, 2019

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Group exhibition “Pull Up The Stake” is on view at Qi Mu Space through January 19, 2019, with the participating artists: Fan Jiupeng, Feng Zhixuan, Jiang Fang, Liu Guangli, Ma Qiusha, Na Buqi, Qi Xing and Wang Changcun, the exhibition will last until March 24.

“Pull Up The Stake” refers to the nomads’ primary work to remove the tent before their migration, which means starting a new journey. A step away from the centre is a physical method of maintaining spiritual independence in distance. Just as nomads migrate in accordance with the geography, weather and time, instead of placing themselves in any kind of ease, they generally formed their own way of dialogue with nature and life. Try to cope with life’s absolute limit by the change of freedom and the infiniteness of exploration.

"Go with the flow and have no purpose", rejecting the ambiguous relationship between traditional images and truth, and also the ideological obedience. “Something in the world forces us to think”. “Pull Up The Stake” is describing everyone who is not willing to “determine”, it stays alert to macro politics and mainstream discourse, meanwhile, respects the micro life experience and the original emotional touch.

Fan Jiupeng

Fan was born in 1981 in Tangshan, graduated from No.3 studio of China Central Academy Of Fine Arts in 2005. His solo exhibition was held in Ifa Gallery, Shanghai in 2010. The group exhibitions that he has participated include: “The Civil Power”, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, “Uncovered China”, ifa Gallery, Brussels Belgium and Paris Art Festival 12, etc.

Fan Jiupeng's oil painting is characterized by the control of the pigment, that is, the expression of his own ideas in the use of painting materials. Although using the material like oil painting, he conveys the effect of sculpture. Fan is an artist who has been constantly changing his creation. From his graduation to the present, he gradually moves from realism to abstraction, from scene depiction to conceptual thinking. Based on the initial focus on the character structure and solid foundation, he began to add his own ideas to the character image.

Feng Zhixuan

Zhixuan is a Chinese sculptor based in China and the UK. He received his BA from the China Academy of Art in 2015 and MA from the Sculpture department at the Royal College of Art.

Grounded in socialistic public art, he devise an algorithm that processes the fundamentals of art making through a series of Chinese and non-Chinese art-world valorisations. What he calls ‘bluffing structures’ are wry and well observed; asking questions of artistic strategies of authentication. In this process he uses his own fictional tales as the primary vehicle for critical engagement with and expression of his “Incorresponding Aesthetics”.

Woven into this quite strategic and cynical generative process, culturally resonant metaphors, and discovering techniques of making that are intuitive, pleasurable and inventive.

Jiang Fang

Jiang Fang was born in Liaoning in 1974, she graduated from Fine Arts School Affiliated to China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1995 and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1999, currently based in Beijing.

The color of Jiang Fang's works is astonishing. The posh, deep and used color cannot be found here. Those “shy” colors in daily life could have their dignity back again. They are reminiscent of forests, meadows, flowers, sky, cloud shadows, mountains and streams. It reminds us of the life of hunting and grazing. The feeling is not just from the color, but also the simple and relaxed brushwork. It appears in texture, graphics and structure, and attaches in the atmosphere brought by them.

Liu Guangli

Liu Guangli was born in 1990 in Lengshuijiang, Hunan, the world capital of antimony. He graduated from école nationale supérieure de la villa arson à Nice and currently studying at the National Centre of Contemporary Art in France(Le Fresnoy). His work deals with the possibility of new relationships in topological spaces, which created by the translational behavior in cross-cultural contexts.

Ma Qiusha

Ma Qiusha was born in 1982. She graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2005 and received her MA degree from Alfred University in the United States in 2008, currently based in Beijing.

Her works have been exhibited in Tate Modern, the Groningen Museum of the Netherlands, Borusan Contemporary of Turkey, Düsseldorf Art Museum, Germany, Karlsruhe Art and Media Center, Houston Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampa Museum of Art, St. Peters Fort Art Museum, Orange County Art Museum, Jurgen International Art Foundation, Stavanger Art Museum of Norway, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, British Chinese Art Center, Beijing UCCA, Shanghai Minsheng Modern Art Museum , Shanghai Pavilion of OCT Contemporary Art Center, National Art Museum of China and Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Na Buqi

Na was born in 1984 in Inner Mongolia, graduated from China Central Academy Of Fine Arts in 2013, currently based in Beijing. The exhibitions that she has participated include: "Cold Night" (UCCA Art Center, 2017), "Museum Beelden aan Zee" (2017), Stadium (CAFA, 2017), the 11th Shanghai Biennale Exhibition (2016), the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), etc. Na was a finalist in the 2016 Huayu Youth Award.

Na Buqi's work starts with the focus on objects and extends to the relationship between objects and the body, in terms of the perceptions of people in different spaces and environments. The object series focuses on the object itself, and the relationship with the body and the interaction. “Scenery outside the space” observed the body’s perspective differences in multiple spaces, by the combination of realistic and imaginary spaces. Her recent work combined individual pieces of sculpture to form a fragmented scene in space. Meanwhile, she also extended her thinking to a larger scope, trying to explore the relationship between people and the surrounding environment in public space.

Qi Xing

Qi Xing was born in Tangshan in 1982, he graduated from No.3 Studio of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2005 and currently based in Beijing. The exhibitions that he has participated include: "Paradise" Taipei Eslite Gallery, 2007; "You are in the Red Building, I am in the West" New York Asian Art Fair, 2008; "Yu Yuantan" Beijing AAW Gallery, 2017; "still life, quiet thinking" Shanghai West Coast Art Center, 2018.

Qi Xing's paintings derive from the classical and secular art of Western Europe, and also closely related to the theme paintings and realism of China. The subject of his work is between reality and fiction; the style of painting is thick, full, deep and clear.