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Light and Shadow Exhibition

Three Manned Exhibition at MKM Museum Küppersmühle

Works by Cai Guo Qiang, Wang Yi Dong, Zhang Lin Hai

Vernissage: 10 May 2005,   7:00pm - 9:00pm
Exhibition Continues: 11 May 2005 - 3 July 2005

Museum Küppersmühle Sammlung Grothe,Philosophenweg 55,47015 Duisburg, Germany

Schoeni Art Gallery is very proud to announce that  our late founder's intentions of having a museum show for Zhang Lin Hai and Wang Yi Dong has been finally realised.

Schoeni Art Gallery latest international exhibition will be held, in joint vision, with the distinguished MKM Museum Küppersmühle, Germany, where the gallery's exclusive/associated artists Wang Yi Dong and Zhang Lin Hai have been invited to artistically support their contemporaneous leader in Chinese Contemporary Art, Cai Guo Qiang in a three manned show called "Light and Shadow". The exhibition will be held at the museum from the 10th of May and continues until the 3rd of July.

More information about the exhibition:

Since opening in 1999, the Museum Küppersmühle has set a precedent in Duisburg's Port area, as an international cultural hub. Having revamped its architectural outlook, the refurbishment of the interior houses an impressive 3 storeys of exhibition space. Living up to its international reputation, this exhibition is part of its prestigious international program that selectively invites artists to participate in its annual artistic achievements.

In continuation of the gallery's endeavour and momentum in widening the audiences of Chinese Contemporary art on a global scale, as well as the Museum's philosophy and the ever-growing interest in Chinese art, Schoeni Art Gallery has grasped this ideal collaboration to show works of two of our artists from mainland China who are both top of their field; one in Neo-Realism and the other in Post-Modernism.

For the past ten years, Wang Yi Dong's art characteristically borrows heavily from traditional and locally specific subject matter. Wang Yi Dong portrays a visually striking, lofty ideal of the Chinese Feminine Form. Inspired by his native hometown, the Yimen Mountain range in Shandong Province, Wang Yi Dong's international acclaim has insured his popularity in important exhibitions and private collections alike. Wang Yi Dong was recently exhibited at the Beijing Museum of Fine Arts with the China Realism Group, which bares testament to his leadership in the new interpretation of a historically recognised genre. All 15 works on display at the museum have been lent specifically for this show by collectors world wide. It is fair to say, that this is a rare sight to see so many of his works under one roof.

In contrasting valour, Zhang Lin Hai leans into a boldly differing motif. Inspired by a nostalgic recollection of his childhood in Hebei Province, Zhang Lin Hai explores the literal and metaphorical landscape of memory. In keeping with his locally specific motifs, his home province, She County, retains a congruity with its wistfully remembered distance from history in the uniform sense of youth that is depicted in repetitive imagery. Many of the works by Zhang Lin Hai, which he has been working on for the past year, are being exhibited for the first time and dynamically reveal an understanding to his definitive success in the Post-Modernism field.

Cai Guo Qiang will also have on display some works that are exploding and burning gunpowder on thick large paper.

To read one of the press clippings about the Light and Shadow Exhibition, in German please click here.