ARARIO GALLERY is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by the established Chinese artist Miao Xiaochun. Grammar is Miao Xiaochun's fifth solo exhibition at ARARIO GALLERY runs from March 6 through May 10, 2015.
After almost 20 years working with computer and software, Miao both love and hate computer technique. It gives the artist an additional strength like a tiger with wings added, but at the same time, it is so addicted for him to stop doing it. Miao Xiaochun has been relentlessly expanding the boundaries of digital technology into the new way of art expression: human brain and the computer thinking together; hand and mouse working together. Miao's paintings are result of combination of the digital and the manual work. He use a cutting plotter to carve the vector file created with 3D software, then transport it onto canvas to assist the manual painting. Evidently, such an assistance plays an important role in the formation of the final painting style.
Miao's most recent works are expanded from the three-dimensional virtual spaces into the two-dimensional manual paintings. He found that virtual images developed by using 3D software has some sort of a new character: the possibility of creating portraits and images related to the objective world, the virtual objects made of 0s and 1s, or creating people and objects with imagination that have never existed in reality. Artist is forming a virtual world that is in parallel with the real objective world relying on computer's powerful calculating capabilities and software's seemingly limitless variations. By taking static or kinetic images with virtual cameras that can be only found in 3D software, and by editing and treating those images continuously, a new grammar of artistic language will be gradually and finally formed.
In Grammar, Miao Xiaochun will bring the large-scale paintings to the ARARIO GALLERY Shanghai and design the space as an artistic and historical grotto. The large-scale paintings retain the semblance of the historical work, but are freed from past temporal association to
become ephemeral and utterly contemporary.
