Introduction
Star Gallery is pleased to present a new series of complicated works presented in unique obscurity. Hole is Huang Yuxing’ s first solo show with the gallery and likewise a drastic departure from his earlier works. This new series reveals the introspective psychology of the artist, as well as a complicated slice of human nature.
Snooping into a Beautiful Life
In Huang Yuxing’ s “keyhole” series Internet suicide, landscapes and islands and intimate interactions are delicately painted on wooden boards shaped like oversized, cartoon-like keyholes. Whether peeking into a bedroom or the distant sky, viewers are inadvertently spying on the sometimes perverse, and other times painful lives of his creations. We become interlopers, trespassers, guilty of stealing a glance through these flat, two-dimensional holes.
Keep Your Distance -Painting and Intimacy
Huang’s hobby of raising lizards reflects his own paradox with intimacy—by nature they will never be too close to him, but as his pets, they cannot live without him either. Such a balance of intimacy is also how you view his images. In the “Hole” exhibition space selected large-scale works are viewed through an intimate—but dividing—peephole. They maintain a physical distance and symbolize the emotional distance between the viewer and his works. Huang Yuxing likewise tries to disassociate the passionate elements from the essential nature of his painting.
His images are derived from various contemporary media, the photographs of friends, the insides of CD wrappers, or Internet downloads. They are a balance of exacting oppositions—violence and harmony, distance and intimacy.
Huang Yuxing was born in Beijing in 1975 and educated at the Central Academy of Fine arts. He has previously shown at Soka Gallery, in Shenzhen and around China. As one of China’s brightest rising artists, he has also received much media attention, appearing in magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar and on television shows such as “A Date With Lu Yu”
A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition, conceptually designed by MEWE studio’s Liu Zhizhi. The catalogue “Hole” will be available through Timezone 8.
Snooping into a Beautiful Life
In Huang Yuxing’ s “keyhole” series Internet suicide, landscapes and islands and intimate interactions are delicately painted on wooden boards shaped like oversized, cartoon-like keyholes. Whether peeking into a bedroom or the distant sky, viewers are inadvertently spying on the sometimes perverse, and other times painful lives of his creations. We become interlopers, trespassers, guilty of stealing a glance through these flat, two-dimensional holes.
Keep Your Distance -Painting and Intimacy
Huang’s hobby of raising lizards reflects his own paradox with intimacy—by nature they will never be too close to him, but as his pets, they cannot live without him either. Such a balance of intimacy is also how you view his images. In the “Hole” exhibition space selected large-scale works are viewed through an intimate—but dividing—peephole. They maintain a physical distance and symbolize the emotional distance between the viewer and his works. Huang Yuxing likewise tries to disassociate the passionate elements from the essential nature of his painting.
His images are derived from various contemporary media, the photographs of friends, the insides of CD wrappers, or Internet downloads. They are a balance of exacting oppositions—violence and harmony, distance and intimacy.
Huang Yuxing was born in Beijing in 1975 and educated at the Central Academy of Fine arts. He has previously shown at Soka Gallery, in Shenzhen and around China. As one of China’s brightest rising artists, he has also received much media attention, appearing in magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar and on television shows such as “A Date With Lu Yu”
A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition, conceptually designed by MEWE studio’s Liu Zhizhi. The catalogue “Hole” will be available through Timezone 8.