清影

Liao Wenfeng

Based in Berlin.

Liao Wenfeng’s practice is not tied to any one particular form or medium. Aside from continuing to work in moving image, Liao Wenfeng has also produced large numbers of sketches and paintings. He excels in using eggs, pencils, teeth and other small objects to create humorous situations, taking optical illusion, euphemism, art historical allusion, political symbolism and admixing these with a variety of other symbols; using simple lines and vivid color to allow everyday objects to acquire novel significance. Moving in conjunction with his painting practice is Liao Wenfeng’s work with GIF images. These almost cartoonish animations accentuate the implied utterances of the still images via their cycling, rhythmic motions. A shaking axe creating an illusion of a waving flag, a continuously oscillating chair intermingling with a galloping horse, the wings of a bird in flight moving with a scissor… At the same time they are harmonious, ingenious, they remind the viewer of certain paradoxical circumstances.

Recent exhibitions include Transcending Dimension: Sculpting Space- Shenzhen Pingshan International Sculpture Exhibition, Shenzhen, China (2019); Small Paths-Liao Wenfeng solo project, Videokunst.ch (Showroom im PROGR), Bern, Switzerland (2018); Eyes Moving A Pencil – Liao Wenfeng’s Solo Exhibition, Inna Art Space, Hangzhou, China (2018); BANANA BANANA 2, Diskurs Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2017); Any Ball, CAFAM, Beijing, China (2017); A Circle, But Not Round, Inna Art Space, Hangzhou, China (2017); Time Based, Non-Places-The 3rd Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, OCT-LOFT, Shenzhen, China (2016); No Real Body- The 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, ​Ekaterinburg, Russia (2015).

Liao Wenfeng

Based in Berlin.

Liao Wenfeng’s practice is not tied to any one particular form or medium. Aside from continuing to work in moving image, Liao Wenfeng has also produced large numbers of sketches and paintings. He excels in using eggs, pencils, teeth and other small objects to create humorous situations, taking optical illusion, euphemism, art historical allusion, political symbolism and admixing these with a variety of other symbols; using simple lines and vivid color to allow everyday objects to acquire novel significance. Moving in conjunction with his painting practice is Liao Wenfeng’s work with GIF images. These almost cartoonish animations accentuate the implied utterances of the still images via their cycling, rhythmic motions. A shaking axe creating an illusion of a waving flag, a continuously oscillating chair intermingling with a galloping horse, the wings of a bird in flight moving with a scissor… At the same time they are harmonious, ingenious, they remind the viewer of certain paradoxical circumstances.

Recent exhibitions include Transcending Dimension: Sculpting Space- Shenzhen Pingshan International Sculpture Exhibition, Shenzhen, China (2019); Small Paths-Liao Wenfeng solo project, Videokunst.ch (Showroom im PROGR), Bern, Switzerland (2018); Eyes Moving A Pencil – Liao Wenfeng’s Solo Exhibition, Inna Art Space, Hangzhou, China (2018); BANANA BANANA 2, Diskurs Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2017); Any Ball, CAFAM, Beijing, China (2017); A Circle, But Not Round, Inna Art Space, Hangzhou, China (2017); Time Based, Non-Places-The 3rd Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, OCT-LOFT, Shenzhen, China (2016); No Real Body- The 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, ​Ekaterinburg, Russia (2015).

Yi Lian

Live & work in Hangzhou , China

Born in 1987 in Jiangxi, China，Yi Lian finished his B.A degree from the New Media Art Department, China Academy of Art in 2009 and earned M.A degree from the School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art in 2012. He won the 2019 Jimei x Arles Discovery Award in Jime x Arles International Photo Festival, the 3rd Wallpost Artist Award from Today Art Museum (Beijing), the M50 creative 2010 new selection "Judges Award" in Shanghai. He was also shortlisted for the Sanya Art Season HUAYU Youth Award in 2018 and nominated the 4th Art 8 Chinese Young Artist Award (Beijing).

Solo Exhibitions:

2018  -  “Yi Lian: Cinema Paradiso”, Bonacon Gallery, Guangzhou

2016  -  “The Desolate Timeline”: Yi Lian Solo Exhibition, Telescope Art Space, Beijing

2015  -  “DEMIBEAST”: YI Lian Solo Exhibition, Inna Art Space, Hangzhou

Recent Group Exhibitions:

2019  -  Points International Residency Project II : Leading a Life of Idle Pleasure, Points Center for Contemporary Art , Jinxi, Jiangsu.

-      “The Students of Zhang Peili and Geng Jianyi”, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai.

-      2019 Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival. Xiamen.

-      “Blank-Filler”, the Exhibition of S-Air Residency project, S-Air Exhibition Space, Sapporo, Japan.

2018  -  “Condition” -HUAYU Youth Award Finalist Exhibition, HUAYU Art Center, Sanya.

-      “Proregress”-the 12th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai.

-      “The Frist Decade”-the 10th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition of Inna Art Space , Inna Art Space, Hangzhou.

-      From/to: the Frontier of Chinese Art Education, San Francisco Art Institute, U.S

-      “The Post Southern Song Dynasty” -Hangzhou Artist Exhibition, KWM Art Center, Beijing

-      “Presence” -Young Artist Exhibition, CAA, Hangzhou

-      ”Taking December 12 as a reason“- Memories Geng Jianyi, Imago kinetics Lab, Hangzhou.

-      TODAY WALL POWER-The 3rd Edition of Wallpost Artist Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing.