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Chang Xugong
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1956 Born in Tangshan, Hebei, China
1980 Graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Tangshan Normal School
1994 Moved to the Yuan Ming Yuan artist village
Currently lives and works in Beijing, China
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Widely known as a special privilege permitting the embellishment of objects, embroidery is the patient process of passing needle and thread with deference a thousand times back and forth through cloth. It is the choice Chang Xugong made, a powerful force in what concerns the ingredients of folkloric tradition and all techniques pertaining to embroidery, to breathe new life into contemporary art. His work borrows heavily from rural imagery, and the tie that accompanies the western suit easily takes on a rustic, even backwards, air- brash colors, ill-assorted accessories and a composition reminiscent of a page from the almanac, the result is an extremely kitsch, very "Gaudy Art", formal language. It is as much a mockery as a study of brightness, a perfectly adequate coupling to highlight one of the most photographic images of our age – that of the rural nouveaux riche.
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
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| 2007 |
Made by Chang Xugong, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
New Socialism, New Peasantry, Willem Kerseboom Gallery , Amsterdam, Holland
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| 2006 |
Baseless Ostentation- Made by Chang, Xindong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China |
| 2003 |
Chang Xugong at the Sydney Opera House, with Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia
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| 1998 |
The Embroidery of Chang Xugong, 1995-1998, Museum of Modern Art, Beijing, China
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| Selected Group Exhibitions |
| 2010 |
KiC Nord Art 2010 Germany, Berlin
RESHAPING HISTORY Chinart from 2000 to 2009
IMPRINT-contemporary art group exhibition, Times Art Museum, Beijing |
| 2009 |
Beijing - Havana, New Contemporary Chinese art Revolution, Cuba Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba |
| 2008 |
Red, Smooth and Luminescent- Contemporary Expression, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Beijing- Athens, Contemporary Art from China, Technopolis of the city of Athens, Greece
3.15- Lets Consume!, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
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| 2007 |
7 Characters - New Art From China, London, England
Chang Xugong - New socialism, New peasantry / Siert Dallinga - Recent works, Willem Kerseboom Modern & Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
The Year of the Golden Pig - Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
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| 2006 |
Yum Cha - Contemporary Chinese, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Brothers, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Arte Fiera Bologna, with Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Bologna, Italy
Mahjong. Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
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| 2005 |
Mah-jong. Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Berne, Switzerland
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| 2002 |
Something Like China Pop, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia
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| 2001 |
"Take Part” - Zeitgnössische Chinesische Kunst, Urs Meile Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland
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| 2000 |
Our Chinese Friends, in collaboration with Urs Meile Gallery, ACC Gallery and the Bauhaus-Universität Gallery, Weimar, Germany
Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
The New Face of China, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia
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| 1999 |
Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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| 1997 |
Urban Personality. - Contemporary Chinese Art, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Chongqing, Chin
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| 1996 |
Gaudy Life, Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing, China
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| 1993 |
Award of excellence in the Bo Ya Oil Painting Contest. Under the patronage of Wu Guanzhong, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
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| 1992 |
Canton Biennale, Guangdong, China
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Artists / Chang Xugong
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