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Duration: 2015.09.05 -- 2015.09.16
Location: 4rd floor exhibition hall of building 1, Today Art Museum
In this era of self-publicity, when people are enjoying the fast, convenient and confortable life that the Internet has brought to us, they are also using mobile terminal to communicate and to show themselves. Xu Hang, a Chinese artist who was born in 1970s, is experiencing the changes of the times physically and mentally. He participants in the tremendous evolution of the society, at the same time he records and expresses this era with his ink and brush.
Xu Hang’s solo exhibition ‘NET @ INK’ at Today Art Museum exhibits his new works of recent years. The works depict various modern urban lives under the background era of mobile Internet. Different kinds of people are called by some popular appellations on the Internet, such as Oppa (pronunciation of brother in Korean), Dashu (middle aged charming man), Xiaoxianrou (young handsome boy), Nyv Shen (woman as goddess), Meimei (Beauty)… He believes expressions, color, language and air of this society have been reflected on these kinds of people. Even their sounds, thoughts and status are the most real, which directly represent the composition of the society.
Xu Hang has been refining the factor of the times that moves himself over the past decade, and depicts them on his paintings with concise, summarize and powerful ink and brush. He wants to use ink to‘@’(in other words, to depict) this society, to‘@’the contents of this society, to‘@’the era of the Internet that we are going through.