Ullens Center for Contemporary Art DIRECTOR’S FORWARD
2010-12-22
Moon in Glass, a new series of works by artist Ling Jian, employs portraiture, mirrors, installation and spatial design to create a seamless visual experience and an atmosphere that invites contemplation. During three decades of living in Vienna, Hamburg ...
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Ling Jian Solo Exhibition Foreword
2010-12-22
Zhang Zikang Director of Today Art Museum Mr. Ling Jian has traveled and lived in Europe for many years, through which has kept an open vision reflexive of reality of imageries in his creative practice. On the other hand, his creativity also projects a re...
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Man Thinks, God Laughs
2010-12-22
Zheng Yan, Art Department Director, The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Since author Milan Kundera quoted the ancient Jewish proverb Man thinks, God laughs in his acceptance speech for the 1985 Jerusalem Prize, the proverb has become well-known through...
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香港唐人－回到北京（宣传）英文版
2009-11-29
MEDIA RELEASE Tang Contemporary Art Hong Kong presents Ling Jian Back to Beijing Date: Nov 29,2009 Jan 03, 2010 Exhibition @ Tang Contemporary Art Hong Kong Basement, Hollywood Centre, 233 Hollywood Road Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Mon - Sat 10.30 am 6.30 pm(Cl...
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LING JIAN: TWO WORLDS, ONE SYSTEM
2008-10-18
The temptation is to extract from Ling Jian’s images the recent history of a people. Such temptation is understandable; as demonstrated repeatedly over the last two decades, the gradual and tumultuous emergence of the People’s Republic of China from its M...
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Interview with Ling Jian
2008-08-15
Zhang: When did you start your artistic career? Ling: When I was young, my grandpa was a landlord. So he had some trouble during the Cultural Revolution. I was only five or six year old then. I dared not step out of my home, because whenever I went out, ...
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surFACE: in transit
2007-03-16
The geographic centrepoint of contemporary art and culture – where it’s at – is constantly changing. In the 1950s, the inspiration radiated from Paris to New York, enlivened by the cultural innovations in music, visual art and live performances. ...
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LING JIAN’S RED VANITIES
2007-03-06
by Jocelyn Adele González Junco In all we do, and hear, and see,Is restless Toil and Vanity -Anne Brontë Thus begins Anne Brontë’s poem first published in 1846 “Vanitas Vanitatis, et Omnia Vanitas”....
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A Social Construction of Gender & Aesthetics
2007-03-06
- About Ling Jian’s Painting By Wei Xing Decadence is the Mannerist late phase of Romantic style. Romantic imagination broke through all limits. Decadence, burdened by freedom, invents harsh new limits, psychosexual and artistic. It is a process of object...
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Something transient--A choice of temptation
2007-02-22
Temptation is the drive for survival.People are always faced with a variety of irresistible temptations-realistic,promotional,financial,and sexual in nature.I have been searching for this aspect of reality and I attempt to multiply the power of temptation...
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Surface modulation
2007.03.16
Wen/JosefNg the geographical centre of Contemporary artand culture, regardless of where, are under constant change. In the 1950 s, through music, visual arts, and live performance culture upgrade, inspired by radiation from Paris to New York. This kind of influence in the western world until in the 1980 s, Japan began to occupy a place in the direction of contemporary culture. Now, the pattern of the western world dominating culture has been a rapid development from newborn, the challenge of the future of the power that is the whole of Asia. Since globalization spread to China for the first time, the pursuit of personalized and spread quickly in a short time, became a highly with symbols of the consumer as the guidance of the information society. Especially in the big city such as Beijing, Shanghai, chengdu, by the...
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An aesthetic of gender and social construction
2007.03.06
- about LingJian painting tiky Decadent is late romanticism mannerist, imagine all broke through the boundaries of the romantic style. Decadent, in the name of freedom, create sex psychology and artistic new demanding standards. This is an objective and curing process, it has turned out western bad eyes. - camilla palmer bounty "sexual mask in camilla palmer bounty of the controversial book" sex mask (SexualPersonae), the female scholars from Yale inspected the western from ancient Greece to the Oscar Wilde in the era of British Duan Wenxue and art history, points out that the western from classical to modern creation source of many of the great works of art are from sex and decadent, known as the wine in the human nature god, dithyrambs of Dionysus spirit and social...
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Passing - the temptation of choice
2007.02.22
Temptation is the power of a survival, people always face, realistic, advertising business, all kinds of difficult to resist the temptation of money, sex, I have been looking for this kind of true, trying to enlarge the power of temptation in the picture, it did not cover the present in my canvas. Like a woman in the picture of the cold skin, bowed out of the red line. A spirit is the height of the level of cold, one is the disappearance of anesthesia of reality, one is for the demise of the sad, is a kind of ideal retain memories of life gradually retire... All sorts of feelings, full of pictures, filled with my life, I through this new realism, it is a deeper meaning of self contradictory era, cultural and social conflicts. Often someone said I draw is all some beautiful, what's the meaning of my beauty which...
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