The Extraordinariness of the Existence

2024.06 - 2024.08

SHI Xiang
Group Exhibition, Keting Space, Beijing; Simple One, Beijing; 20th Century Gallery, Shanghai
Curator: Cao Feng

    Shi Xiang uses the most simple materials and methods to explore the most easily neglected aspects of everyday still life. He is delicate and sensitive, but has a sharp temperament and power, and returns to the state of painting as it should be, without being superficial and wrapped up in the current fashionable paintings. People who like Shi Xiang’s works must be pure in heart.

    There is a power in the delicate sensitivity, and the skin of the tree root has the hair flu in an instant. Shi Xiang is happy to use the most simple materials and methods to explore the most neglected side of still life and its extraordinary nature.

     

    –Cao Feng

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    About Artist

    SHI Xiang

    Shi Xiang, born in 1987 in Tieling, Liaoning Province, graduated from the Department of Fresco and Mixed Material Painting of Hubei Academy of Fine Arts as an undergraduate in 2010; graduated from the Fourth Studio of the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a Master's Degree in 2016, and now lives and works in Beijing.

    In his creations, he continues the previous Chinese artist's thinking about still life, and maximally dissolves the color, replacing it with a renewed cognition of the object, and an understanding of the shape, volume, and even the essence of the object, using the most simple materials and methods to dig into the most easily overlooked aspects of everyday still life.