Performance｜Cheng Ran: Orange&Blue
2016/3
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Cheng Ran: Orange&Blue
2016.3.19
“What I want to show you is: What have we exchanged for a movie, piles of bills, medicines, in exchange for an invisible, intangible vision and memory.
This is a necessary price, and of course an equal deal. ”
——Cheng Ran
Around this long ongoing film, a steady stream of projects are growing and unfolding in it. Cheng Ran takes the film mechanism and process as the starting point, in which the production and exchange, and the consumption of time, all become sources of new ideas. From the film preparations for the solo exhibition “Searching for Miracles” at Beijing Urs Meile Gallery in March 2015, to the film wrapping day in May, the band Wang Wen was invited to conduct sound experiments on the shooting scene, with the concept of “OPEN STUDIO” Concept is constantly trying to open up and transcend the practice of value in conventional film and contemporary art categories.Cheng Ran will display his manuscripts and film props for the nine-hour free film “In Course of the Miraculous” (Miraculous Tracking) in Qiao Space. From the snow-capped mountains in the Tibetan area of Sichuan to the studio in Beijing, the filming process spanned more than half of China and more than 8,000 kilometers. At the same time, Cheng Ran will also redesign and change Qiao Space, and the two colors of orange and blue will run through the entire exhibition. At 5 p.m. on the opening day, artist Cheng Ran will present a new performance called “Ocean Wave”. The song, as well as the dialogue written by the screenwriter Louis Nou, explore the theme of language and bodily experience.
ARTIST
Born in Inner Mongolia in 1981, he completed a two-year residency at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in Amsterdam from 2013 to 2014, and now lives and works in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
Some recent solo exhibitions include:
“Nine Hours of Film”, K11 Foundation, Hong Kong (2016); “Orange & Blue”, Qiao Space, Shanghai (2016); “Film in Progress”, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing (2015) Lucerne, Switzerland (2015) ;Always I Trust, ARMADA Space, Milan, Italy (2014); Phone Booth Affair, LEO XU PROJECTS, Shanghai (2014); “The Last Generation”, Wall/Ladder/Machine and 9BC Performance, New York, USA (2012); Immersion and Disengagement, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China (2009), et al.
Some recent group exhibitions include:
The 14th Istanbul Biennale, Turkey (2015); “When I give, I give myself “, Van Gogh Museum, Netherlands (2015); Artist Fiction, Cricoteka Art Museum, Karakow, Poland (2015); Giant Interior, Palais de Tokyo, France (2014); Open Studio, Royal Academy of Visual Arts, Amsterdam (2013-2014); “We Never Participated”, The 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, Shenzhen (2014); BOOK LOVERS 4.0, De Apple Art Center, Netherlands (2014); Video Art in China-MADATAC New Media Art Festival, Princess Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain (2011); Chinese Contemporary Video Exhibition (1988—2011), Minsheng Art Museum , Shanghai, China (2011); Say Goodbye to Post-Colonialism – The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (2008); Labyrinth – New Media Art Festival, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China (2004), wait.
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