Qian Rong
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Texts
- About Qian Rong’s “Lone Island Forum”
- ink, pen and water color on paper, 38 x 38 cm, 2010
- Lu Xun Boat, sculpture, resin and acrylic, 70 x 43 x 21 (cm), 2010
- Shanghai Alliance, No.21, watercolor and ink on craft paper, 41 x 43 cm, 2011
- Small Collective, No.1, sculpture, fiberglass, steel sheeting, photographs and toys, 41x 33 x16 cm, 2011
- “A Torch Illuminates the Local Snacks,” watercolor and ink on craft papers, 2010 “Spy Movies and Local Snacks, No.1,” watercolor and ink on paper, 2010
Exhibitions
- Absurdistan
February 23rd, 2013 - April 4th, 2013 - Forgotten PlacesNovember 26th, 2011 - January 7th, 2012
- Collective Consciousness August 6th, 2011 - August 30th, 2011
- Refracted Realities
April 9th, 2011 - May 9th, 2011 - Learning from the Literati 1September 9th, 2010 - October 31st, 2010
- Re-Visioning History May 22nd, 2010 - July 17th, 2010
About Qian Rong’s “Lone Island Forum”
ink on xuan paper
43 x 43cm
2011
At a certain point in time in time Shanghai was called an island. There is also a place called Fuxing Island on Huangpu River. Nowadays it doesn’t play an important role in Shanghai, as it is far away from mainstream life, but it still has something to do with history. It was said that Chiang Kai-shek set sail from Fuxing Island when he left the Mainland. The imagery in these works attempts to evoke the memory of history. We interpret history according to own understanding, in this way pondering reality. In its essence history is a mirror, reflecting the past and foreseeing the future.
