Chen Shaofeng

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CHEN SHAOFENG: THE VOICELESS PEOPLE

Opening:
18th March 2007, 3 pm

Exhibition:
20th March - 15th April 2007

Venue:
WHITE SPACE BEIJING
P.O.Box 8502
2 JiuXianQiao Road
Chaoyang District
Beijing 100015
China

Opening Hours:
Tues - Sun, 12 - 6 pm

Since around 15 years Chen Shaofeng is dealing with the peasants of the Hebei Province in his work. Consciously he doesn't focus on the language of the globalized art-scene. His approach is rather to break up the elitist character of art by overcoming the abyss between 'professionals' and 'unprofessionals' and thereby 'bringing art and life together'.

Although Chen Shaofeng strongly concentrates on China as regards content, his works have so far been primarily presented abroad.

Amongst others Chen took part in the 2nd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial in 2002 and in the first Guangzhou Art Triennial 'Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000)'. His work 'Dialogue with the Farmers of Tiangongsi' was shown at the Sao Paolo Biennial in 2004 and at a solo-exhibition at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany.

Up to now the works of 'The Exploration of the Heibei Province' from 1993 have been shown in China only once, in the National Gallery at Beijing. Outside China Chen Shaofeng's sociological projects were presented for the first time in 1996 at the Munich Marstall Theatre in an exhibition curated by Alexander Ochs. The series from 1996 has not yet been presented in China until today.

This year for the first time works from all projects by Chen Shaofeng will be on display at the solo-exhibition 'The voiceless People' (March 20th - May 15th) at WHITE SPACE BEIJING. Paperworks from the series 'The Exploration of the Heibei Province' will be presented as well as double-portraits in oil from the cycle 'Dialogue with the farmers of Tiangongsi' and his latest works from 2006, created within the scope of the Long March Project.

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