March 24th 2012, ShanghART Beijing is honoured to present "Zhuiku Tablet" Annotation, solo exhibition of artist CHEN Xiaoyun. As the first solo exhibition staged in ShanghART Beijing in 2012, it is going to be the debut of a dozen artworks including photographs and paintings, which around a fictitious theme develop profound configurational interpretation. Uniquely characterised by semantic ambience of notes and essays, the exhibition is deluged with anxiety and darkness, where correlation between paintings and photographs is unified in the filed of lingual fantasy. Since 1999, CHEN Xiaoyu has been concentrating himself mainly in photography while this exhibition, with the set of photos, speaks another attempt by the artist over long-term practice in this very realm.

"Zhuiku Tablet" Annotation, furnishing pictorial annotation of Zhuiku Tablet, a book from which both rhetorical and emotional elements are introduced and unfolded as premise of painting or photography creation, renders imaginatively a withering and waning world infused with verbal consciousness, uttering a passive voice to a few elementary illusions.

Chen Xiaoyun (1971) was born in Hubei province. Since his participation in the group exhibition 'Art for Sale' held in Shanghai in 1999, he started his contemporary art creation and practice in video art, and has become one of the most important experimental artists in the most recent decade. Chen Xiaoyun has participated in various international art exhibition and festivals, including Shanghai Kino at Kunsthalle Bern (2009, Switzerland), 16th Biennale of Sydney (2008, Australia), Havana Biennial 2008, Drapeaux Gril at CAPA-Musee d'art Contemporain (2007, Bordeaux in France), the Busan Biennale 2006 in Korea, Turin Triennial 2006 in Italy, Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art 2005 in Japan, and the 5th Shanghai Biennial (2004). His recent solo exhibition including: Why Life, ShanghART Beijing(2011); Emerald Tablet held at ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai(2009); Faint at MC, Los Angeles(2008); Love You Big Boss at the Project Gallery, New York(2008).