From the Hara Museum, Tokyo
The talk by the Chinese artist Yang Fudong will be held at the Hara Museum (Tokyo) as an event related to the upcoming exhibition,
Yang Fudong: The General’s Smile (starting from Saturday, December 19). The talk will be given in Chinese with consecutive Japanese interpretation.
Artist Talk:Yang Fudong
Date: December 20 (Sun.) 2:00 – 3:30pm
Place: The Hall at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
Fee: General 2,000 yen Members and up to 2 guests 1,000 yen (per person) Museum admission is included.
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Yang Fudong, The General’s Smile, multiple-channel video installation, 2009
YANG Fudong (楊福東)
Born in Beijing in 1971 and graduated from China Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou in 1995, Yang Fudong is garnering international attention for his photographs and films. He has shown work at numerous international exhibitions such as the 4th Shanghai Biennale (2002), Documenta 11 (2002), the 50th Venice Biennale (2003) and the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007). In Japan, his work was featured in the 1st Yokohama Triennale (2001) and the 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale（2005）, as well as in many group exhibitions. He currently resides in Shanghai.
Exhibition
Yang Fudong: The General’s Smile
December 19 (Sat.), 2009 – March 28 (Sun.), 2010
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As an artist with a strong attachment to 35mm film, Yang creates films that are noted for their unique, finely grained textural quality and the use of highly refined and perfectly composed imagery. His films–at times documentary in tone, at times theatrical–depict fragments of contemporary Chinese society, transforming at dazzling speed, and the people who live within it. This exhibition introduces the magic of Yang Fudong’s world by presenting a number of his cinematic gems, some being shown in Japan for the first time. These include The General’s Smile (2009), a large-scale video installation about the universality of human life presented in a scene of a banquet celebrating the retirement of a military officer, and Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest Part 3 (2005), one part of a series that depict well-educated, modern-day young urbanites as they reveal their inner thoughts in various situations modeled after the popular tale of seven famous intellectuals in ancient China who seek refuge from the world in a bamboo forest where they engage in intellectual discourse.
Yang Fudong, The General’s Smile, multiple-channel video installation, 2009
Yang Fudong, Backyard-Hey, Sun is Rising!, 35mm B&W film/DVD, 13min., 2001
Courtesy of the artist and ShanghART Gallery