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Email PageCamouflage World
May 3, 2007- May 25, 2007
Reception: May 3, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Xing Junqin
798 Avant Gallery
511 W 25th St798 Avant Gallery is pleased to present a Camouflage World, a solo exhibition of work by the artist Xing Junqin. This will be the artist’s premier American show. Camouflage World will include new sculpture and paintings, which will be on view throughout the month of May.
Distinguished in China as the preeminent military painter, Xing Junqin has balanced a successful career in both the Chinese military as well as the contemporary art world. His work is characterized by strong avant-garde and experimental artistic features. Drawing on a rich array of subject matter the artist juxtaposes militaristic themes with popular imagery from western history.
The heaviness in the new work of Camouflage World is balanced by an underlying current of absurdist humor. Xing Junqin portrays Rodin’s Thinker on a larger than life chess board with Duchamp’s Fountain and a scattering of soldiers and military jets. In his sculptural work River Crossing soldiers are depicted in perfect formation neck deep in water gasping for breath. They all wear hats emblazoned with ‘No U-turn’.
Xing Junqin was born in Shanxi in 1960. He graduated from the Military Academy of PLA in 1989. In 1993 he graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including 1st place and Excellence Awards for New Works in PLA Arts. His work has been exhibited widely in China.
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