Chen Shaoxiong 陈劭雄

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Chen is an artist and former member of the experimental Big Tailed Elephant Group in Guangzhou. Born in 1962, he lives and works in Guangzhou.

Contents 1 Date & Place of Birth 2 Art 3 Exhibitions 4 Gallery Affiliation(s) 5 Acquisitions & Auctions 6 References

Date & Place of Birth

Chen was born in 1962 in Shantou, Guanzhou Province.

Art

Chen's signature works, the ongoing series Streets (begun in 1997), feature cutouts of urban scenes held up at arm's length and reshot against other city milieus. The jumble of times, places, and cultures echoes life in fast-growing Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta, as well as Chen's natal city of Shantou on the eastern coast, one of the ports forced open by Western powers in the nineteenth century and a Special Economic Zone since the 1980s.^[1]

Chen's variations on the mad-urbanization theme include his Ink City (2005-present) wash drawings, slide projections and videos, and his Homescape installation of room interior cutouts placed in a grid of one hundred identically sized boxes. Aware that globalism brings physical danger along with it social changes, he has made numerous post-9/11 photographs and videos in which tall buildings in China bend or part in order to avoid being smashed by an onrushing jetliner. In other cases, structures that do not react are digitally exploded.^[1]

Exhibitions

For Chen's exhibition history, click here.

Gallery Affiliation(s)

Chen is represented by Wedel Fine Art in London and Barbara Gross Galerie in Munich.

Acquisitions & Auctions

For Chen's auction record, click here.

References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Richard Vine, New China New Art, New York: Prestel, 2008