Duan Jianyu
Schnable, Vulgar Scenery of China No.4, 2002. Oil on canvas, silk-screen printing, plastic plate, 160 cm by 180 cm. Courtesy Vitamin Creative Space, 2013.
Born in China 1970. Graduated from the oil painting department of the Guangdong Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China. Awarded with the 2010 CCAA Best Artist Prize. Highly personalized, her paintings interweave with her textual notes, narrating pulp, surrealistic stories. The rendering of the Chinese landscapes with the pairing-up of unpredictable elements, like Air-hostesses, are the main features of her Sister series. Mixing the elements from Western art history with the popular culture Duan grew up with in the 70s, her paintings and installations depict a rich and juicy grassroot culture in the Fine Art context, sometimes self-ironic but full of appreciation of daily life.
Anne Deleporte REBUS “This is no doubt an artist’s filter of the newspaper. Images are privileged over words, suggesting a different kind of literacy. Deleporte’s selective reading creates a sense of order out of the glut of visual and textual matter we face daily, both awake and in dreams. The way in which Deleporte’s work summarizes the news, bringing together chance occurrences in print media, is integral to her art, while it also leaves the door open to the viewer’s subjective reading… How one image or detail relates to another is part of the experiment. The real mystery is what Deleporte chooses to cover up.” – Sara Reisman annedeleporte.com
REBUS, 2008. Process view, Prospect1, New Orleans.
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