The works in this exhibition also explore themes of violence, injustice, and subjugation, as policemen wearing helmets and battle gear as familiar from photographs of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Yang combines depictions of police violence with European motifs of women from early Baroque until the 19th century; the faces that in mannerism express vulnerability become allegories of oppression in the midst of the oppressors. A fighter presents himself in quite a different way, crossing a ´red line´, armed and in a simultaneously defensive and aggressive pose, apparently all-too-resolute.
Alexander Ochs showed work by Yang Shaobin for the first time in 1999, hence the title of the exhibition, the same year the artist received great international recognition at the Venice Biennale curated by Harald Szeeman. Yang´s blood-red paintings (in Venice seen alongside the work of Sigmar Polke) were disturbing: They depicted people beaten beyond recognition. Their faces did not reveal realistic exactitude, but a blurry, fluid uncertainty.
Yang Shaobin´s work is currently on view at the exhibition Chinese Expressionism in Shanghai Art Museum (China Art Museum) and HOW Art Museum, Wenzhou, China, and the 2013 Sharjah Biennale, United Arab Emirates. In addition, the exhibition Blue Room is currently being shown at Arken Museum in Ilshøj, near Copenhagen.
James Aldridge (1971); Huma Bhabha (1962); Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010); Edward Burtynsky (1955); Matt Calderwood (1975); Aristarkh Chernyshev (1968); Tony Cragg (1949); Salvador Dalí (1904 - 1989); Désirée Dolron (1963); Marcel Dzama (1974); Laura Ford (1961); [Gilbert Prousch *1943 & George Passmore *1942] Gilbert & George; Matthew Day Jackson (1974); Hideaki Kawashima (1969); Tianbing Li (1974); Richard Long (1945); Jie Luo (1958); Jonathan Meese (1970); Almagul Menlibayeva (1969); Erwin Olaf (1959); Hans Op de Beeck (1969); Shaobin Yang (1963); Anoek Steketee (1974); Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948); Ruud van Empel (1958); Levi van Veluw (1985); Anne Wenzel (1972); Erwin Wurm (1954);
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Ravi Agarwal (1958); [Jennifer Allora *1974, Guillermo Calzadilla *1971] Allora & Calzadilla (1995); Francis Alÿs (1959); Nele Azevedo; Joseph Beuys (1921 - 1986); Richard Box; Ines Doujak (1959); Ólafur Eliasson (1967); Steven Emmanuel; Galerie für Landschaftskunst; Emiliano Godoy; Dionisio González (1965); Sonia Guggisberg; Hermann Josef Hack (1956); Ilkka Halso (1965); Cornelia Hesse-Honegger (1944); Vincent J.F. Huang; Martin Kaltwasser (1965); Folke Köbberling (1969); Christian Kuhtz; Christin Lahr (1965); Antal Lakner (1966); Jae Rhim Lee; [Marlen Liebau & Marc Lingk] Liebau & Lingk; Till Leeser; Shirley Paes Leme; Yongfeng MA; Petra Maitz (1963); Renzo Martens (1973); Axumi Matsuzaka; Manish Nai (1980); Dan Peterman (1960); Clement Price-Thomas; Peter Reichenbach; Dodi & Flori Reifenberg; Pedro Reyes (1972); Ariel Rojo; Gustavo Romano (1958); Michael Saup; Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (1938); Dina Shenhav; Robert Smithson (1938 - 1973); David Smithson (1956); [Bjørnstjerne Christiansen *1969, Jacob Fenger *1968, Rasmus Nielsen *1969] SUPERFLEX (1993); Jakub Szczesny; [Jacques Servin & Igor V] The Yes Men; Maria Vedder (1948); Jiulang Wang; Danwen XING (1967); Shaobin Yang (1963); ZuhauseKraftwerk; Rudolf zur Lippe; Zwischenbericht;
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