This publication is produced in occasion of the duo exhibition of two Chinese female artists Duan Jianyu and Hu Xiaoyuan at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, from January to March 2013.

'"A Potent Force" brings together the work of two strongly individual Chinese artists, Duan Jianyu and Hu Xiaoyuan, both of whom happen to be female. The distinct sensibilities that they each bring to their art are an amalgam of their respective life experiences, of the incidental features of their personal background and the environs in which they grew up, and of the aspirations of their respective generations: Duan Jianyu was born in 1970 and graduated in 1995 from the oil painting department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts; Hu Xiaoyuan was born 1977 and graduatedin 2002 from the design department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
If these two artists have anything in common beyond their gender, it is how society views them as women and, as a result, what the art world expects from them. The different ways in which they navigate these issues is evident in their work, and by means of two entirely unrelated approaches to artistic expression. Duan Jianyu is one of the finest painters at work in China today, with a visual vocabulary that appears at first as simple as child’s play and, yet, is a highly sophisticated mechanism for capturing her perceptive observations of the world. Hu Xiaoyuan works with a range of mediums with a particular strength in video, which she deploys as a sensual experience for the viewer, providing the maximum emotive force via a minimum of factual information to draw upon. An encounter with the work of each of these artists engages viewers on a direct and subconscious level and, at the same time, provides a great many ideas to contemplate.' - from museum's website.

Publication includes dialogues between the curatorial team and the artists, and artists' biographies.
Alternative title

Ti hu: duan jian yu hu xiao yuan

Access level

Onsite

Location code
EX.CHN.POF
Language

Chinese - Simplified, 

English

Publication/Creation date

2013

No of pages

182

ISBN / ISSN

Nil

No of copies

2

Content type

catalogue

Chapter headings

Art is an Act / 藝術是一種行動 - Larys FROGIER

A Potent Force: Duan Jianyu and Hu Xiaoyuan / 醍醐:段建宇與胡曉媛 - Karen SMITH

A Conversation between the Curatorial Team of Rockbund Art Museum and Duan Jianyu / 上海外灘美術館策展小組與段建宇的對話

A Conversation between the Curatorial Team of Rockbund Art Museum and Hu Xiaoyuan / 上海外灘美術館策展小組與胡曉媛的對話

A Potent Force: Duan Jianyu and Hu Xiaoyuan
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A Potent Force: Duan Jianyu and Hu Xiaoyuan, 醍醐:段建宇 | 胡曉媛

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