McLean Modern Art
Private SellerUSA
About Artist:
Xiong Wenyun is a Beijing based artist who explores colour and its effects through painting, photography and multimedia works. Her early projects documented Tibetan huts draped with colourful Bhuddist prayer flags and painted doors as a means of accenting cultural connection and evironmental conflicts. Her work is also influenced by pop culture and anime, as apparent in Kong Kong, a prosthesis for her feelings towards childless-ness and a conduit for the artist's will to animate.
Recent solo exhibitions include Rainbow, Songzhuang Art Centre, Beijing, 2014; Kongkong Solo Show, LDX Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, 2010; Ten Years of Moving Rainbow: Photography by Xiong Wenyun, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, 2008; Cai Hong, Galleria dell’Arco, Palermo, Italy, 2006; and Rainbow Road, FUJIKAWA Gallery, Osaka, Japan, 2002.
Xiong Wenyun
Er Lang Shat
- 1998
- 84 x 84 cm
- Fine Art Category: photography
- Medium: C Print
- Origin: China
- Certificate of Authenticity: yes
- Issued by: ChART Contemporary
- Provenance: Purchased directy from Artist's gallery - ChART Contemporary
- Signed: Signed lower right
- No / Edition: 1/3
- Comments:
The photograph was purchased in 2008 from ChART Contemporary gallery in Shanghai.
Print is in excellent condition, in original museum quality wooden frame with UV reflective/resistant glass. Buyer to pay/arrange for shipping.
The image is part of Xiong Wenyun's multi-year project Moving Rainbow (1998-2001). This large-scale participatory project promoted environmental protection along the highways from Sichuan and Qinghai to Tibet. She was inspired to create installations transforming local architecture and lines of trucks along the Sichuan and Qinghai-Tibetan highways. Using colored plastic tarpaulins that added exuberant hues to Tibet’s mountainous landscape, Xiong created a moving rainbow of trucks as they made their way along the high roads of the region. The colors she used—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple—echo those seen in the prayer flags drivers and journeyers left alongside the highways they traveled on. According to a statement by Xiong, Tibetans “say that this color sequence comes from rainbows, and that rainbows are god’s ladders.” Xiong, who is a well-known, highly active artist who studied at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts and then researched color in Japan, took this order of hues and made it her own by covering the trucks and the doorways of roadside cabins.
- Price: $12,500.00 USD
- Seller: McLean Modern Art, USA
Contact Seller...
- More by this artist
- More from this seller
- Get artist alerts
- Save to favourites
- Share on facebook
- Share on twitter
- Pin to Pinterest
- Share on LinkedIn
- Email this artwork
- Report this artwork
- Artplode ID: 5074
- Artplode Seller ID: 10638
About Artist:
Xiong Wenyun is a Beijing based artist who explores colour and its effects through painting, photography and multimedia works. Her early projects documented Tibetan huts draped with colourful Bhuddist prayer flags and painted doors as a means of accenting cultural connection and evironmental conflicts. Her work is also influenced by pop culture and anime, as apparent in Kong Kong, a prosthesis for her feelings towards childless-ness and a conduit for the artist's will to animate.
Recent solo exhibitions include Rainbow, Songzhuang Art Centre, Beijing, 2014; Kongkong Solo Show, LDX Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, 2010; Ten Years of Moving Rainbow: Photography by Xiong Wenyun, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, 2008; Cai Hong, Galleria dell’Arco, Palermo, Italy, 2006; and Rainbow Road, FUJIKAWA Gallery, Osaka, Japan, 2002.
