Sun Yuan & Peng Yu

Sun Yuan (born 1972) and Peng Yu (born 1974) are artists living and working collaboratively in Beijing ever since the late 90's.[1]

Old persons home - Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Saatchi Gallery, London

Sun was born in Beijing and Peng in Heilongjiang. Sun and Peng are contemporary conceptual artists[2] whose work has a reputation for being confrontational and provocative.[3] They won the Contemporary Chinese Art Award in 2001.[4]

Life and works

Sun Yuan and Peng Yu are famous for working with unconventional media such as taxidermy, human fat, and machinery.

In "Dogs Which Cannot Touch Each Other", the duo arranged two rows of bulldogs on specially-designed treadmills in a public installation half a meter apart so that they could never touch—the frenzied dogs leapt at each other constantly.[5]

In their contribution to the 2005 Venice Biennale, the duo invited Chinese farmer Du Wenda to present his home-made UFO at the Chinese Pavilion.[2]

The installation "Old People's Home," (2008) comprised 13 hyperrealist sculptures of elderly world leaders, including Yasser Arafat and Leonid Brezhnev, in electric wheelchairs set to automatically wander through the room and bump into one another.[6][7]

"Angel", created in 2008 and exhibited frequently since then, is a fiberglass angel sculpture complete with flesh-covered wings, white hair, and frighteningly realistic skin that features details like wrinkles, sunspots, and peach fuzz.[8]

Their 2009 solo exhibition, "Freedom", at Tang Contemporary in Beijing, featured a large fire-hose hooked to a chain that erupted water spray at a distance of 120 meters and thrashed throughout an enormous metal cage.[9] It was interpreted by some as a memorial to the Tiananmen Square incident on its twentieth anniversary.

Selected exhibitions

2009

Unveiled: New Art From The Middle East, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

2006

Liverpool Biennial, Tang Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK

2005

Higher, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China (solo)

Venice Biennale

Mahjong: Chinese Contemporary Art from Uli Sigg Collection, Art Museum Bern, Switzerland

The 51st Venice Biennale (China Pavilion), Venice

To Each His Own, Zero Art Space, Beijing

Ten Thousand Years Post-Contemporary City, Beijing

2004

Ghent Spring, Contemporary Art Financial Award, Ghent, Belgium (solo)

Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA

Australia: Asia Traffic, Asia-Australia Arts Centre

The Virtue and the Vice: le Moine et le Demon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France

All Under Heaven: Ancient and Contemporary Chinese Art, The Collection of the Guy and Myriam Ullens Foundation, MuHKA Museum of

Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium

Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium

What is Art?, Shanxi Art Museum, Xi’an, China

Australia - Asia Traffic, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Australia

Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea

2003

Second Hand Reality: Post Reality, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

Left Wing, Beijing

Return to Nature, Shenghua Arts Centre, Nanjing, China

2002

The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangzhou, China

2001

Get Out of Control, Berlin, Germany

Yokohama 2001 International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan

Winner: The Contemporary Chinese Art Award of CCAA, Beijing

2000

Indulge in Hurt, Sculpture Research Fellow of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing

5th Biennale of Lyon, Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France

Fuck Off!, Donglang Gallery, Shanghai

1999

Post-Sense Sensibility Alien Bodies & Delusion (Basement), Beijing

1997

Counter-Perspectives: The Environment & Us, Beijing

Inside, Tongdao Gallery Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing [10]

References

  1. ↑ Yuan, Yu, Sun, Peng. "Sun Yuan / Peng Yu - The World Belongs to You - Palazzo Grassi Venice". Retrieved 24 April 2012.
  2. 1 2 Orbit.zkm.de
  3. ↑ Marlow, Tim, The Independent, Visual Art: East meets West in new cultural revolution from FindArticles.com
  4. ↑ ArtNet.com
  5. ↑ "Or Else It's Not Utopian". SREEN | 介面. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  6. ↑ Dorment, Richard. "Review: The Revolution Continues: New Art From China at the Saatchi Gallery". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  7. ↑ Yuan, Yu, Sun, Peng. "Sun Yuan and Peng yu". Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  8. ↑ "Sun Yuan and Peng Yu's Fallen Angel". artnet News. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  9. ↑ Duff, Stacey, Time Out Beijing,"Of Corpse We Can"
  10. ↑ Yuan, Yu, Sun, Peng. "Sun Yuan and Peng Yu". Retrieved 24 April 2012.

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