This book accompanies the Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (CCAA) 2010 and Duan Jianyu's solo exhibition entitled 'Duan Jianyu: The Seduction of Village', held at Vitamin Creative Space's The Pavilion from November to December 2010. Winner of 'Best Artist' at CCAA 2010, Duan is known as a painter 'purposely avoiding the painterly sublime, [but striving] for the most generic subject matter and [delving into] banal expression and style. [...] Her sincerity about the fundamental role of art in life is matched by her ambitious scope: To use art as a medium to tell basic truths about conditions of contemporaneity.' —Ruth Noack (back cover)

In his essay, Bao Dong suggests that Duan Jianyu has concealed the elegant narrative rhetoric in her creative works, and goes as far as to link all of her works together into a single, long story, and it also beckons people to see her works as a connected, unified whole, because her creations are always in a state of metonymy. 'In painting she tries all kinds of methods — including chickens, watermelons, bad taste, dirty paint, wisecracks, the mundane, commercial paintings, pretence, cheapness, clumsy imitation, girlishness, etc — to make a mockery of painting. This is the method Duan Jianyu uses to grant freedom to painting.'

This publication includes Duan's paintings from 2001 to 2010 and essays by multiple authors.

Alternative title

Duan jian yu: cun zhuang de you huo

Access level

Onsite

Location code
MON.DJY
Language

Chinese - Simplified, 

English

Publication/Creation date

2011

Edition

1

ISBN / ISSN

9789881991232

No of copies

2

Content type

artist monograph, 

catalogue

Chapter headings

優美著,滑稽著,咳嗽著 / To be Elegant while Looking Silly and Coughing - HU Fang, 胡昉

王克服,一個美術愛好者的故事 / Wang Kefu, the story of an art lover - DUAN Jianyu, 段建宇

如果她是一名作家...... / Has She Been a Writer... - Duan Jianyu and Her Painted Stories - Monica DEMATTE

如何用繪畫嘲笑繪畫 / How to Use Painting to Mock Painting - BAO Dong, 鮑棟

讓生存智慧做主 / Let the Wisdom of Life Decide - ZHANG Wei, 張巍

中國無意識的場域 / The Site of Chinese Unconscious - Ruth NOACK

和書有關的一些小事 / Some Things Related to the Book - DUAN Jianyu, 段建宇

筆墨官司 / Polemic: A Battle in Words - DUAN Quanfa, 段荃法

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Duan Jianyu: The Seduction of Village, 段建宇:村莊的誘惑