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EAST OF QUE VILLAGE |
06 feb 2009 - 07 jun 2009 |
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Yang Fudong |
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Yang Fudong [°1971, Beijing] was trained as a painter at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou. At the end of the 1990s the painter opted for the media of film and video and soon became one of the most important contemporary Chinese artists. Fudong twice took part in the Venice Biennial [in 2003 and 2007]. His work was also exhibited in prestigious museums such as the Kunsthalle in Vienna, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Castello di Rivoli, and many others. |
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Location: 4th flour FotoMuseum Waalsekaai 47, 2000 Antwerpen |
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With the East of Que Village installation [2007], the Chinese artist Yang Fudong wants to create a picture of contemporary rural China, especially of the day-to-day battle to survive in the midst of encroaching merciless urbanization. The image of this installation consists of a six-channel video in which a group of dogs running wild is fighting to survive. The landscape, somewhere in the north of China, is desolate and inhospitable and forms the backdrop to a ruthless life-and-death struggle. Humans are sporadically present in Fudong’s installation and represent a reflection on the fight between the dogs. The artist also attempts to define the role of the individual in a society that does not seem to take the individual into account. The poetic work is a metaphor for the feeling of isolation and desertion that the artist detects in contemporary society. East of Que Village is one of a series of exhibitions with visual culture as the leitmotiv which the M HKA and the FotoMuseum are developing together for the 4th floor. |
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