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OCAT Xi'an Showcase | Pan Jian & Gao Weigang: Amber

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OCAT Xi’an Showcase

AMBER

Artists: Pan Jian, Gao Weigang

Curator: Yang Xi

Opening Date: June 1st, 2019 19:00

It is our great honor to announce that a new Xi’an Showcase project titled “Amber” will opened at 7pm, on June 1st, 2019. The project will present artist Pan Jian’s paintings as well as the installation works created by artist Gao Weigang.

In the film The Matrix (1999), the human survivors on earth are depicted as residing in a cave called Zion, and forced to fight the suppressive forces of Artificial Intelligence. Zion, the righteous place in the Bible, has the same Chinese transliteration as “Xi’an”. This story tells neither of the past nor the future, and instead is more like a folding overlap of causality, through which clues to the past and present are revealed.

In this project, the many details within Pan Jian’s painting suggest the trajectory and sequence of actions, as if seeing capillaries that reveal and imply the existence of a larger subject, or the slices of life (time) produced by a CT scan.

? Pan Jian | L-180136（ detail）

Acrylic on canvas, 200X150cm,2018

Gao Weigang’s underground world is represented by the debris of a scorched earth. People witness the crushing of the clay-soil underfoot as they walk over it. The fractured earth becomes compressed into a process of dying.

? Gao Weigang | Line 3

Stainless Steel, Wood ,Dimensions Variable ,2014

Pan Jian and Gao Weigang, the two artists presented here, sensitively capture this, using their own ways of working to conceal imagined pockets of time, as if trapped within amber, seen as another “Zion” of their own creating.

About the Artists

Pan Jian (b.1975) graduated from Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in 2001. He lives and works in Beijing and Xi’an.

Gao Weigang (b.1976) lives and works in Beijing as an independent artist.

About the Curator

Yang Xi, independent curator, writer and art history researcher. He graduated from the Art History Department of Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts with a MA in 2015. Now he is continually working on a PhD in visual culture and art criticism in Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts. He lives and works in Xi’an.

About OCAT Xi'an

OCAT Xi’an was founded in Xi’an in November 2013. It is dedicated to contemporary art: its mission is to draw upon local and international resources to promote Chinese contemporary art to an international standard as well as to support a range of cultural exchange programmes in Xi’an. The exhibition programme is guided by a contemporary focus on artistic innovations that extend backwards and forwards in time. It is said that in ancient Xi’an east met west. OCAT Xi’an aims to continue that convergence through the practices of artists at the forefront of the contemporary era.

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