SHANGHAI PRIZE STRUCTURE OF THE SIGN, WIN CHEN WEI, LIU YUE, RAO Kaixi
The three Chinese artists, CHEN Wei, LIU Yue, RAO Kaixi, winners of the selection for the second phase of the Prize Shanghai, as required by the notice, will exhibit their works during the period of residence in the spaces VIR Viafarini-in-residence, Milan. The exhibition will remain open until Thursday, July 31, 2014.
The second edition of the Shanghai starts well after the conclusion of the assignment of six residencies respectively in three young Italian artists, Alessandro Dandini de Sylva, Claire Prince, Elisa Strinna, previously hosted in Shanghai at the East China Normal University – School of Design, and the three young Chinese artists, hosted in Milan in the artist residency VIR Viafarini-in-residence.
The Prize Shanghai is a project signed an institutional agreement signed with the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism – Directorate General for landscape, fine arts, architecture and contemporary art / architecture and art Service contemporary (MIBACT – PaBAAC) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Directorate General for the Promotion of the Country System (MAE – DGSP / Office IV), the Italian Cultural Institute, Section of Shanghai (Shanghai IIC) and the Institute for Garuzzo Visual Arts (IGAV), with the aim of promoting research and knowledge of different artistic languages between the two countries.
Chinese artists and Italian winners of this second edition will meet with representatives of the institutions sponsoring the Award, at the inauguration of the exhibition The structure of the sign and talk about their different experiences for a first reflection and evaluation of the entire project.
CHEN WEI born on 1 September 1990 – Project: The Order
“The Order wants to be a spiritual experience of geometric space-rational. The project consists of two parts: performance art and experimental dance videos. The live painting is an extension of my previous performances, but the issue is different, in this case dedicated to my personal research on the representation of space. The videos of experimental dance, however, originated from studies on various forms of religious mysticism and represent the human body as a means of experimental participation in the creative process and combine perfectly to my painting rational and thematic space. ”
LIU YUE born June 18, 1981 – Project: Experiments cognitive
“My project is intended to be a kind of cognitive experiment that seeks to study and understand psychological phenomena as if they were natural phenomena, objective data. Object of My Affection explore: the visual world. The world we know is multidimensional, but commonly seen through our eyes appears to be two-dimensional. The visual processes then lead us to imagine or infer a “real world” multi-dimensional and three-dimensional framework of a planar artificial. Our knowledge of the world, therefore, is not the real world, but directly from the framework of our visual experience. ”
RAO Kaixi born January 12, 1994 – Project: Notes
“The paintings are divided into two types: fine art images and words. The words, used for the communication of all the days, visual symbols are able to provide a message. Language is the main difference between us and animals, but mostly it is what led the man to civilization and to be part of a society in which speaking and teaching are the primary way to spread knowledge. The words contain a high load of meaning capable of transmitting culture, ideas, knowledge and techniques. The words were then used to express the inner world of artists in poetry, novels, fairy tales. “