Ouyang Chun - Painting the King
Hanging in the tall exhibition galleries are 30 paintings, many as long as 5 m. Chinese artist Ouyang Chun presents his cycle “King” (Wang) at the me Collectors Room Berlin. Neither a museum nor a Kunsthalle, the Room is instead a space for experiencing art, and was created by collector Thomas Olbricht. This is the second exhibition to take place at the me Collectors Room Berlin, and the first in a series of planned solo presentations by artists represented in the Olbricht Collection. “Painting the King” is also the first institutional solo show outside of China to feature Beijing-born Ouyang Chun, an artist who numbers among the outstanding exponents of the young generation of contemporary Chinese art. Standing out continually in this series of paintings, executed between 2006 and 2009, is the motif of the King. “For me, the king is first of all a human being. Every king has a multilayered character. I wanted to represent that in my pictures.” These images make a distinctive and variegated impression by virtue of their mixture of techniques from traditional Chinese and modern painting. But the art of Ouyang Chun cannot be characterized as vacillating between tradition and the present. And precisely for this reason, this artist and his work demonstrate that the forms of expression found in recent Chinese art are becoming ever more various.
Exhibition of works by Ouyang Chun - Painting the King October 2, to January 9, 2011 me Collectors Room Berlin Auguststraße 68, 10117 Berlin
