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16 – 24 September 2016
Cake (2014)
by Qiu Anxiong
featured in the selection
Zing Zing Asia
Monday, September 19 @ 16:00
At UPLINK FACTORY, Totsune build. 1F, Udagaywacho, Shibuyaku, Tokyo
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ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Hors Pistes［Off Tracks］is an moving image art Festival promoting experimentation of new forms of art, organized by the Centre Pompidou since 2006.
Well known for introducing international new talents, HORS PISTES showcases a selection of works, a mirror of the uniqueness of the Cinemas of Centre Pompidou, focusing on diversity.
Created to explore the most innovative and avant-garde trends of today’s interdisciplinary creation, HORS PISTES brings together art and moving images through screenings, live performances, installations and eventful workshops.
Every year HORS PISTES gives to diverse audiences the opportunity to be immersed in the off-beat universe of multidisciplinary art and media, to explore the breaks and shifts which emerge in contemporary forms of films and narrative and triggers new boundaries.
ABOUT CAKE
After working predominantly in oil painting during his studies in Kassel and having later turned to landscape painting in the tradition of the old Chinese masters, Qiu’s return to Shanghai in 2004 marked a shift in interest towards video art.
Marked by the same quiet detachment and timelessness as his previous works, but now combining painting, drawing and clay in his animations, Cake offers an exquisitely crafted contemplation on the past, the present, and the relationship between the two. This work was premiered in PANDAMONIUM: Media Art from Shanghai, a co-production by MOMENTUM and Chronus Art Center, at MOMENTUM Berlin 2014.
Qiu Anxiong (b. 1972, Chengdu) was born in the capital of Sichuan province in the southwest of China. There, he studied under the progressive artistic practice of Ye Yongqing and Zhang Xiaogang. Qiu and his friends collectively founded a bar which became a hub for the blossoming underground music and art circles in Sichuan, and his colleagues included He Duoling, Zhou Chunya, and Shen Xiaotong. In his animated films, Qiu co-mingles the classical and the contemporary, using the traditional Chinese ink-and-wash style to transpose contemporary social and environmental issues onto traditional Chinese landscapes. Qiu has exhibited broadly internationally, having studied contemporary international art and traditional Chinese culture at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany.
In 2004 he began teaching at Shanghai Normal University and currently lives and works in Shanghai. Qiu received the Chinese Contemporary Art Award in 2006 and has exhibited widely, including a recent solo-show, titled Qiu Anxiong, The New Book of Mountains and Seas II at the Arken Museum of Modern Art in Ishøj, Denmark (2013) and group exhibition ‘Ink Art’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (2013). He is one of the artists undertaking the PANDAMONIUM Residency, and will be producing new work for this show.