Shu Yong at Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland, until 5th July

Exhibition Description:

Shu Yong is frequently presented in the Chinese mainstream media as controversial, as differing from most artists; he persists in directly and affirmatively interferring with Chinese society. By playing games with the government, enterprises and the media, he constantly stirs up trouble through his art in relation to the evolving features and capabilities of Chinese modern art.

For this ongoing bubble theme, Shu Yong blew bubbles in the offices of several hundred renowned entrepreneurs and recorded these events photographically. The office is a political, economic and cultural center of power with great significance, and, as well, an economic nerve center linked to what is happening in society.

Shu Yong uses the bubble metaphor to represent the ideals, accomplishments, appreciation of beauty, ambitions, temperaments, and the collection of knowledge of these entrepreneurs which are conceivable in one single moment, using the illusion created by the refraction of prismatic bubbles.

Artist and architect Ai Weiwei describes his use of mythology: "Shu Yong and his unspectacular bubbles are as much medium, style, concept and method. They stand for traditional Chinese mythology that leads us to our present time making new experiences and views possible. These experiences seem to impose a riddle to a Westerner’s view: inscrutable China, inscrutable mythology. It is indeed this very mysteriousness that gives China its mystical and splendid charm."

Description:

Image: Shu Yong, "Bubble at Office - 3" 2000 – 2008, detail, lightbox 38 x 56 x 12 cm. Courtesy: Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne.

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