Following “Things from the gallery warehouse 1 and 2” which introduced this exhibtion series last winter ShanghART Gallery is pleased to present now “Things from the gallery warehouse 3.”
This time three large scale installation works from two young artists, Zhang Ding and Huang Kui, will be exhibited. They are “Does God exist?”， “Heaven is only an excuse” from Huang Kui and “A game of unclear direction” from Zhang Ding.
What we do is to present people more approaches of understanding the art pieces and their creators.
 
"Game with direction unknow" by Zhang Ding, Game of Unclear Directions is a large stage raised at more than a meter above the floor, composed of four main settings: a stuffed peacock, a zen-style rock, a fountain made of a vase and foams; a carpet featuring a symbol; a boat with chairs sunken in the wooden floor; a snowy slope with half of a body at its bottom. All these objects extracted from reality are combined together into a decor that possesses an unusual, awe-inspiring beauty.
Zhang Ding,Born in Gansu Province in 1980. graduated from North West Minority University (Oil Painting Department) in 1998, Now living and working in Shanghai
graduated from China Academy of Art in 2003, lives and works Currently in Shanghai
"Heaven is only an excuse" by Huang Kui is showed this time, consists of a video and a light box installation. Inspired by an extremely violent online video, Huang Kui described its content as a process during which “some lives are deprived of by some other lives”. Huang separated this video frame by frame to obtain individual pictures in large quantity: pictures of murdering. Then he applied these pictures on an image of the oil painting named Le Printemps by French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau, creating a new work, namely, the installation on display. During the production process, the colors of each picture were changed according to Le Printemps. Then, the artist took these color-changed pictures to make a new video, achieving this work that presents a uniquely sparkling effect.
Huang Kui,Born in Renshou, Sichuan Province in 1977. graduated from Sichuan Fine Art College (Oil Painting Department) in 1996, Now living and working in Shanghai