SHANGHAI GALLERY OF ART
FENG MENGBO'S EXHIBITION(S) AT SHANGHAI GALLERY OF ART (2)
| 2010.09.09 - 2010.09.12 | Shanghai Gallery of Art@ShContemporary 2010 Shanghai Art Fair International Contemporary Art Exhibition (artist, art fair) |
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| 2010.09.07 - 2010.10.17 | Journey to the West - Feng Mengbo Solo Exibition (artist, solo) |
| ARTISTS | Feng Mengbo |
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| Date of Birth | 1966 |
| Place of Birth | Beijing, Beijing, China |
| Gender | male |
| Living & Working Place(s) |
Beijing, Beijing, China |
| Representing Gallery(ies) |
ShanghART Gallery F Space (Shanghai, China) ShanghART Gallery H Space (Shanghai, China) Hanart TZ Gallery (Hongkong, China) ShanghArt Gallery (Shanghai) (Shanghai, China) Shanghai Gallery of Art (Shanghai, China) ShanghART Gallery (Beijing) (Beijing, China) |
Curriculum Vitae
| 1982-1985 | the Design Department of Beijing School of Arts and Grafts |
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| 1987-1991 | the Printmaking Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing |
Mini Biography
Feng Mengbo was one of the first Chinese artists to develop an interest in global networking, the virtual world and their effects on human behavior. Since the early 1990’s, he has worked at the intersection of painting and digital media.
Feng Mengbo's first two animations are based on popular picture books filled with violent imagery published in 1969 and 1972, respectively. The third animation, “The Technology of Slide Shows,” derives from a book of that same title published in 1982 that documented methods developed by the People's Liberation Army for creating animation effects with slide projections, that, in the absence of television and film, provided a major source of entertainment during Feng Mengbo's youth. Likewise, four oil paintings “Street Fighter I-V” take their name from a widely popular computer game but reference particular aspects of Chinese history and political development: while characters in the painting resemble those from the original game, the characters in the painting are dressed in PLA uniforms. By inserting the Chinese military into the context of a violent computer game, Feng Mengbo indirectly critiques the system in power.
Feng Mengbo employs a new method of using the computer game as a critical tool for a recent series of photographs: for these works, he incorporates himself in a game that involves fighting and shooting some imaginary evil power. With a kill or be killed mentality, what is presented as a virtual game might very well be regarded as a mirror for ‘real’ people struggling against the rigid and omnipresent Chinese official organization of control. Feng Mengbo’s photos have a slight antagonistic quality – urgent, almost hostile and often reaching witty heights of passive aggression. His works often are not what they seem, revealing much more beneath the deceivingly quiet surface.
REPRESENTED ARTISTS(9)
- Feng Mengbo
Beijing, 1966 - Ouyang Chun
Beijing, 1974 - Polite-Sheer...
2005 - Qiu Jie
Shanghai, 1961 - Wu Shanzhuan...
- Xu Bing
Chongqing, 1955 - Yan Lei
1965 - Chongbin Zhe...
- Zhuang Hui +...
- A Daier
- Jean Christi...
- Olaf Brennin...
- Chen Wenbo
1969 - Chen Xiaoyun
1971 - Chen Zhen
Shanghai, 1955 - Chen Jie
Chongqing, 1980 - Chen Wei
Zigong, 1980 - Cheng Tsaitu...
Taibei, 1953 - Colin Chinne...
- Cui Jian
- Dai Qing
Shanghai, 1973 - Dan Er
- Deng Xianzhi
- Ding Yi
Shanghai, 1962 - Du Zhenjun
Shanghai, 1961 - Fang Wei
- Feng Mengbo
Beijing, 1966 - Gao Shiqiang
1971 - Gao Weigang
Haerbin, 1982 - Geng Jianyi
Zhengzhou, 1962 - Gu Dexin
Beijing, 1962 - Guan Wei
Beijing, 1957 - Han Lei
Kaifeng, 1967 - Han Feng
Haerbin, 1972 - Han Feng
Shanghai, 1961 - Ho Rania
- Hong Lei
Changzhou, 1960 - Hong Hao
Beijing, 1965 - Hu Xiangqian
1983 - Hu Xiangchen...
- Huang Yongpi...
Xiamen, 1954 - Huang Yongpi...
- Jiang Zhi
1971 - Jie Chen
- Jin Jiangbo
1972 - Anish Kapoor
1954 - Kengo Kuma
- Shiro Kurama...
- Marc Lafia
- Li Mu
1974 - Li Dafang
Shenyang, 1971 - Li Zhouwei
- Li Huayi
Shanghai, 1948 - Li Shurui
- Liang Wei
1966 - Liang Meipin...
1961 - Liang Yue
Shanghai, 1979 - Liao Guohe
Calcutta, 1977 - Lin Yilin
Guangzhou, 1964 - Lin Zhipeng
- Lin Minghong
Kyoto, 1964 - Liu Wei
Beijing, 1972 - Liu Chuang
1978 - Liu Jianhua
Jian, 1962 - Liu Wei
Beijing, 1965 - Lu Chunsheng
1968 - Luo Yongjin
Beijing, 1960 - Ma Daha
- MadeIn
Shanghai, 2009 - Paul McCarth...
- Michael Lin ...
- Mu Chen
Dandong, 1970 - Ni Youyu
- Ouyang Chun
Beijing, 1974 - Polite-Sheer...
2005 - Pu Jie
Shanghai, 1959 - Qi Hanyong
- Qin Qi
1975 - Qiu Jie
Shanghai, 1961 - Qiu Zhijie
Zhangzhou, 1969 - Qiu Shihua
1940 - Qiu Xiaofei ...
- Quyang Chun ...
- Mika Rottenb...
- Shen Yuan
1959 - Shi Xinning
Yingkou, 1969 - Shi Yong
Shanghai, 1963 - Song Tao
Shanghai, 1979 - Song Dong + ...
- Sun Hongbin
- Tan Dun
- Tang Ke
Chengdu, 1972 - The Comforta...
- Inga Svala T...
- Ryan Trecart...
- Heidi Voet
- Wang Lang
Shanghai, 1968 - Wang Ningde
1972 - Wang Du
Wuhan, 1956 - Wang Yin
Jinan, 1964 - Wang Gongxin...
- Wang Wei + R...
- Richard Wils...
- Wu Shanzhuan
1960 - Wu Junyong
Putian, 1978 - Wu Guangyu
Baishan, 1971 - Wu Shanzhuan...
- Xiang Liqing
Shaoxing, 1973 - Xu Tan
Wuhan, 1957 - Xu Xinlang
1986 - Xu Bing
Chongqing, 1955 - Xu Zhen
Shanghai, 1977 - Yan Lei
1965 - Yan Peiming
Shanghai, 1960 - Yang Zhenzho...
Hangzhou, 1968 - Yang Fudong
Beijing, 1971 - Yang Jiecang
Foshan, 1956 - Ye Yongqing
Kunming, 1958 - Yin Xiuzhen
Beijing, 1963 - You Si
- Yu Youhan
Shanghai, 1943 - Minjun Yue
Daqing, 1962 - Zeng Hao
Kunming, 1963 - Zeng Li
Liuzhou, 1961 - Zhan Wang
Beijing, 1962 - Zhang Liaoyu...
Weifang, 1980 - Zhang Zhenxu...
- Zhang Wei
Beijing, 1958 - Zhang Xiaoga...
Kunming, 1958 - Zhao Liang
Dandong, 1971 - Zhao Xuebing
- Zheng Zhongb...
- Zhong Shan
Guiyang, 1971 - Zhou Chunya
Chongqing, 1955 - Zhou Tiehai
Shanghai, 1966 - Zhou Xiaohu
Changzhou, 1960 - Zhu Zheqin
- Zhuang Hui
1963 - Zhuang Hui +...
- Zou Tao
EXHIBITED ARTISTS(131)
- Bao Dong
1979 - Mathieu Bory...
- Li Zhenhua
Beijing, 1975 - Toshio Shimi...
- Wu Hung
Beijing, 1957 - Yang Tianna
COLLABRATING CURATORS(6)
- Lewis Biggs
- Gu Wenda
Shanghai, 1955 - Peter Jackso...
- Peter McDona...
- Zeng Fanzhi
Wuhan, 1964
