HAPPY NEW YEAR｜APSMUSEUM Limited New Year Art Works Release

Name：Tiger

Artist：Xiang Zhenhua

Year：2022

Computer Program，Video，collection-level digital output image & video

Time：1minute 48seconds，Repetitively

Edition：6+1AP

In this social environment that expresses emotions quickly, emoji, as the most direct element, is sent at the moment of clicking, and the receiver gets a more vivid "image" with emotions in addition to the text. Of course, the emotions themselves are fleeting. This work selects the tiger, an emoji that will be frequently used in the Chinese Year of the Tiger, and the original image is mixed into a new "image" through a program algorithm. Due to time, this "image" is different from the emotion information of the emoji itself, leading people pay attention to this new image.

As an original work of video art, each set of "Tiger" contains video and a unique collectible digital output image, the "image" of each digital output image is randomly taken from a certain frame in the video. We will adopt a "blind box" delivery method, and the collector will not know the "image" of the digital output image in advance. We maximize and preserve the fun and surprises until the moment you open the box, adding a random mystery.

Xiang Zhenhua was born in Chongqing, China in 1984, graduated from Beihang University in 2006, studied at the Gobelins in Paris in 2007, and then went on to study at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris for his master's degree. He is currently working in Shanghai.

Name：Golden Tigers

Artist：Yang Dongbai

Year：2022

Size：23x25x17cm

Material：Resin

In the works of artist Yang Dongbai, the tiger looks realistic, whether it is dynamic or static, and he combines humanization in his realistic style, reflecting the thinking and aesthetics of modern people. The warm picture of a group of tigers gathered together by artist Yang Dongbai is very holistic. The tiger shows a little gentleness in its mighty power, and the artistic conception created touches the viewer. While artworks stimulate viewers' emotions, viewers also carry their emotions in artworks. The artistic conception of golden tigers cuddling with each other can arouse viewers' awareness and reflect contemporary people's expectations for a happy family.

Yang Dongbai is a sculptor, he was born in Shanghai, China in 1959, graduated from Sculpture Department of Tokyo University of the Arts with a master degree;  member of China artists association, executive director of Shanghai artist association, vice president of Changning district artist association，member of Shanghai Federation of liberty and art circles, professor of Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts，the head of sculpture department. 

Qiu Anxiong was born in 1972 in Sichuan province. He graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1994. In 2003 he graduated from the University Kassel's College of Art in Germany after six years of studying both contemporary international art and traditional Chinese culture. Now he is teaching at East China Normal University. His works employ different kinds of mediums including animation, painting, installation and video, etc. Representative works are animation films New Classic of Mountains and Seas, Temptation of the Land, Minguo Landscape, video installation Staring into Amnesia. He founded “Museum of Unkown” in 2007, which is an active power in the ecological construction of contemporary arts in recent years.

Qiu Anxiong’s recent work consists largely of paintings, animations, and  video installations. In the 2006 piece The New Classic of Mountains and Seas, for example, Qiu employs multitudes of ink drawings and links them together in an animated form. The title itself refers to the ancient Chinese mythology Classic of the Mountains and Seas. Besides investigating the interaction between ancient and modern Chinese culture, this work and others like it have a dreamlike quality: the clearly delineated images framed by unbelievable narratives faithfully depict the absurdity of the world around us. This link to the everyday further enhances the political value of the work, which engages in a damning criticism of environmental degradation, social breakdown, and massive urbanization. 

Selected Public Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum of Modern Art New York. Art Museum of Brooklyn, New York Spenser Museum, Kansas University Museum of University Oxford, Kunst Halle Zurich, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Art Museum Hongkong, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum.