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RAS Art Focus
New Perspectives of Art in Shanghai:
About Painting – Artist Talk with Shi Zhiying
Saturday, 15 June 2024
1:45 pm Registration
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Continuing our examination of New Perspectives of Art in Shanghai, please join us in the ongoing series curated and moderated by the Art Focus Convener and Art Historian Julie Chun as we critically assess the pluralist aspects of local encounter and reception of art from abroad and within China.
This rare event at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai brings together two important topics for discussion: 1) the relevancy of painting in today's society and 2) a closer look into the state of the Chinese contemporary art, with personal observations by the artist Shi Zhiying. The internationally acclaimed artist has been invited by the Yuz Museum to hold her solo exhibition "Stones and Stories" where we have the opportunity to witness her past and present works brought together in a site-specific architectural setting in the beautifully restored ancient water town of Panlong. Known for her meditative brushstrokes and themes centering on accumulations, the paintings by the Shanghai-born artist Shi Zhiying have been featured in major museum group and solo exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Australia as well as throughout China. Using oil-painting in ways that evoke Chinese ink washes, Shi Zhiying's practice embody the essence of eastern aesthetics with western medium that expands the discourse of painting beyond what meets the gaze. In this intimate artist-guided talk held privately for the Royal Asiatic Society China and moderated by Julie Chun, we will hear from one of the important Chinese contemporary artists about her inspirations, her painting process, and how paintings can still remain relevant in a global society dominated by digital art forms.
(After the museum talk, we will hold the Q&A over coffee and tea with the artist.)
For more information about the exhibition, please visit: http://www.yuzmshanghai.org/shi-zhiying-stones-stories/?lang=en
Speakers
Shi Zhiying
Born in Shanghai in 1979, Shi Zhiying has been working at Shanghai Oil Painting & Sculpture Institute (SPSI) since her graduation from Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University with a Master’s Degree in Oil Painting in 2005. She currently lives and works in Shanghai.
Shi Zhiying has become well-known for her stark monochromatic paintings of uniform vistas in open ocean water, sand, and grass. She deals with objects’ state of existence in her painting. Emphasized in her practice is the interchange of appearance with disappearance: the quality and scale of water, rocks, containers, figures of the Buddha, and beads are described in painterly strokes. However, the shapes are not definite, but formed by independent lines, brushstrokes, and the paints, conveying an immanent rhythmic logic, stablishing a stable and sensational structure in the process of interacting with the visual experience. The artist demonstrates, via her smooth and insightful paintings, the transience of a being’s life, captures the extremely gradual transition that happens in the space between objects, the painting surfaces, and the present experience.
Shi Zhiying’s solo exhibitions include: “Bliss”, SPSI Art Museum, Shanghai, 2023; “Shi Zhiying”, WHITE SPACE, Beijing, 2022; “Shi Zhiying: The City of Illusion”, MATTHEW LIU FINE ARTS, Shanghai, 2022; “SHI ZHIYING”, Orange County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2017; and etc. Her recent group exhibitions include: “Time Gravity – 2023 Chengdu Biennale”, Chengdu Tianfu Art Museum, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu，2023; “Legacies of Exchange”, LACMA, Los Angeles, 2021; “The Return of the Guest”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2019; and etc. Her works are acquired by Power Station of Art, Shanghai; Orange County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Shanghai Art Museum; Chengdu Art Museum; Art Gallery of New South Wales; Fosun Foundation, Shanghai; Yuz Foundation, Hong Kong; Shanghai Liuhaisu Museum; Cc Foundation, Shanghai; White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney; Pizzuti Collection; By Art Matters, Hang Zhou; and X Museum Beijing..
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