Hiding in Words

There are three exhibitions right now in the nearing Today Art Museum. The museum is quite near, I can walk there in minutes. The exhibitions are Hei Feng: Pay Honour to the Past and Future, “Love You” by Jan Peter van Opheusden and the Interrelated Horizon.

Pay Honour to the Past and Future

Hei Feng was born in the western province of Gansu of China in 1965. He studied Chinese drawing at university and went to America where he kept his art career as a painter.

There are paintings as well as sculptures in this show. And the most eye-catching is this bull. This dog and the flying men (angels?) over head are also very common. This is the head of the bull:

And, this is the other side:

Look into the anus, you can see communities, cars and walking people inside.

These two following paintings shows the once sensational news stories: the nail house, when the house owner opposed government-backed re-construction movement; and paper baozi, when bad restaurant owners fill waste paper in baozi, a popular steamed food :

In this world no one can be sure that they are safe and secure. We all need something protective to ease our anxiety, for example, a condom.

In Hei Feng’s exhibition, there are also flying “Angels”, they are absolutely not the kind of Angels of ordinary definitions. Those Angels all have exaggerating penis. Also, there are dogs with flowers in the anus, young men wearing a condom on the head trying to “see the world in another way” by standing on his hand, and Tiananmen controlled by two hands. Also there are the bird nest(Olympic stadium) and the huge egg(National theater), with newly born little birds:

You might notice a crow in the sun. That is an allusion of Chinese mythology, in the beginning, there were 10 suns in the sky, each a child of the Heaven. And a hero named Hou Yi shot 9 suns down, all those suns turned out to be huge crows.

The boat was interpreted as Noah’s Ark.

There are clear political meanings in some of these paintings. In Hei Feng’s studio, there are some items that are not exhibited: erected penis with wings and cities and skyscrapers. (Pitiful forgot to take a photo)

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Interrelated Horizon

“Interrelated Horizon” is an exhibition of several artists.

This really took me aback.

“Goodbye and Sleepless Nights” is a series of paintings of this style: naked sexy yet twisted men and women:

I’m very interested in the scripts that are shown downstairs:

This, is called “Intimacy“.

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