【Fifth Sending】Wu Shanzhuan: Today Became a Holiday

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Received 

2006

Acrylic on canvas

179 x 357 cm

Wu Shanzhuan: Today Became a Holiday

2019.3.16 – 10.13

Long March Space

“Today Became a Holiday” is Long March Space’s first exhibition of 2019. It will show paintings by Wu Shanzhuan. 

“Today Became a Holiday”: Wu has named this holiday “World Flatday”.

The concept of logistics as working method has been used throughout the practice of the artist, beginning with the 1989 piece Big Business (Selling Shrimps) up until “Today Became a Holiday”. This art logistics configuration eventually takes this ‘holiday’ as a carrier for painting. 

“Today Became a Holiday” is an epic narrative duration, and the duration of the seven month exhibition time is a ‘holiday’, a time of painting. 

In “Today Became a Holiday”, Wu states his proof of work by painting, and painting as a remedy to resist the burnout syndrome of the contemporary. 

“Today Became a Holiday” is a constellation with more than 200 paintings, from Hamburg, Reykjavik and Shanghai, that have arrived in Beijing by seven sendings (shipments). They are gifts for this ‘holiday’, each arrival pushing us one step closer to Wu’s “Today Became a Holiday”. 

Here we are sharing some of the gifts (paintings) from the fifth sending recorded. 

These are the starting points of this constellation, “Today Became a Holiday”. 

《有一块名为003的肉，蝶蛙》

A Meat Called 003 Butterfrog

2007

Acrylic on canvas

200 x 139.5 cm

《当世界地图上什么也没有的时候》

When There is Nothing in Map of the World 

1995-2008

Acrylic on canvas

139.5 x 187 cm

《天花板之洞》

Ceiling Hole

2009

Acrylic on canvas

180 x 149.7 cm

《括旋和一朵花的形态》

Bracketed Spiral and the Configuration of a Flower

2010

Acrylic on canvas

200 x 200 cm

《数字洞孔无毛》

Number Hole Hairless

2010

Acrylic on canvas

200 x 180 cm

《有三种绿色的房间或社会主义绿色的高度》

A Room with Three Greens on Heights of Communism Greens 

2011

Acrylic on canvas

140 x 200 cm

《一块绿黄海绵块》

1/3 A Sponge Green Yellow 

2011

Acrylic on canvas

200 x 140 cm

《一个蝶蛙》

A Butterfrogor

2012

Acrylic on canvas

200 x 200 cm

《潜词，别人正在搜索》

Subwording, Others are Searching and More

2007-2013

Acrylic on canvas

199 x 197

《涂掉内容的痕迹》

Trace of Obliterated Contents 

2014

Acrylic on canvas

152 x 111.8 cm

《土地 行李 旗帜》

The Land the Luggage the Flag

2015

Acrylic on canvas

200 x 300 cm

《为大众国字幕的海量搜索》

Mass Searching for Caption of the Massland

2016

Acrylic on canvas

200 x 300 cm

《一张自拍》

A Selfie

2017

Acrylic on canvas

112 X 158 cm

《从方便面碗到即时世界图景》

From an Instant Noodle Cup to an Instant World Mapping

2017

Acrylic on canvas

90 X 120 cm

《今天是所有已经消失的今天的一个截面》

Today is a Section of All Todays that have Passed

Acrylic on canvas

2018

120 x 160 cm

About the artist

Wu Shanzhuan (b.1960) was born in Zhoushan, China. He graduated from Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in 1986 and Hochschule für bildende Künste in 1995. He founded Red Humour in 1985 and Red Humour International in 1990. 

About the curator

Inga Svala Thorsdottir (b.1966) was born in Iceland. She graduated from the Painting Department of the Icelandic School of Arts and Crafts in 1991 and Hochschule für bildende Künste in 1995. She founded Thor’s Daughter’s Pulverization Service in 1993 and BORG in 1999. 

Thorsdottir and Wu have been working and exhibiting collaboratively since 1991 and both currently live and work in Hamburg, Shanghai, and Iceland.