That's Shanghai takes a look at the best art exhibitions up this week:
Superstructure
Flyer via Leo Gallery
Curated by the renowned art critic and curator Bao Dong, this exhibition at the Leo Gallery Shanghai showcases a series of architecture-related works that convey the Chinese philosophical term of the ‘superstructure’ and the corresponding ‘base’. Each uniquely captures the nine different artists’ perceptions of reality, logic and time whilst alluding to this concept as an ‘architectural metaphor'. Featured are installtionized geometric sculptures by Cai Lei and abstract and surrealist paintings by Huang Yishan, Zhou Qinshan and several others.
Until Apr 13, Leo Gallery Shanghai.
The World of Saha: Yu Hong Solo Exhibition
Image via Long Museum West Bund
Opening this weekend, the Long Museum presents one of China’s most celebrated female artists, Yu Hong with an extensive survey of her work, The World of Saha, curated by Jérôme Sans. This exhibition shows how Yu Hong reconstructs personal and socio-historical memories through photography and then through the medium of oil painting, tracing the harrowing history of China’s last 30 years and the country’s transition from a Communist society to a detached one in a fast-growing and globalized world. Mixing realism and magical elements into her brushstrokes, she divides her recollections into four different acts that creatively fuse different perceptions of time, memories and the development of emotional states within her personal inner world.
Until May 5, Long Museum West Bund.
Universe of Water Particles
Image via NetEase
The most anticipated exhibition is dubbed Universe of Water Particles in the Tank. The teamLab show at Tank No.5 features assorted paintings and immersive installations about water to articulate poetic and Zen themes.
Until Aug 24, TANK Shanghai.
What Was I? Goshka Macuga
Photo courtesy of the promoter
This collaborative initiative of Polish artist Goshka Macuga envisages a world driven by humanity’s Promethean ambitions to extinction, where the sole inhabitant is an android – the centerpiece of the exhibition. The premises of Rong Zhai, a huge 1918 historical residence that was recently restored to its former glory by Prada, forms the landscape of this android’s experience. Around the corridors of the mansion and dotted upon its walls are pieces by other artists who have brought their own imaginations to bear on the project of creating the android’s own personal art collection. Yet the multiplicity of works is brought together harmoniously by the presence of the android, asking the angst-ridden question originally pronounced by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’s monster: ‘What was I?’
Until Jun 2, Prada Rong Zhai.
To Satiate: Shen Xin
Image courtesy of MadeIn Gallery
Taking inspiration from the post-Structuralists, the Amsterdam-based artist Shen Xin explores the inconsistency of the human spirit through the tension between the individual and the collective, desire and inhibition, understanding and incomprehension. By narrating a text by the philosopher Zhuanzi in a polyphony of English, French and Chinese, or by showing lovers caught between their passion and the pressures of their society, the artist celebrates the human commitment to exploring different ways of being and construing the world.
Until May 05, MadeIn Gallery.
If You Don't Use Your Eyes To See You Will Use Them To Cry: Tobias Rehberger
Photo courtesy of Rockbund Art Museum
The first solo show for the German artist, this multi-dimensional creation extends the possibilities of sculpture to design, architecture, conceptual art and many more. The exhibition will feature a number of new commissioned works and large-scale field installations tailored by the artist for RAM. By creating a dazzling array of objects and environments, Rebec continues to explore new forms of production technology and social intervention, tapping into how we interact with space and perceive the connection between everyday life and art.
Until May 26, Rockbund Art Museum.
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