Artist
More Exhibitions at Ethan Cohen Gallery
Similar Exhibitions
Guestbook
Press Release
Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Li Daiyun: Broken Monument, the gallery’s second solo exhibition with the artist. The exhibition features twelve acrylic-on-canvas paintings from the years 2014 - 2017, at a time when the artist was preoccupied by the failed promises of China’s modern history, in her own and in her parents’/grandparents’ generation. These are moments of optimism and innocence seen through the retro-sadness of hope lost. They are about youthful exuberance at the advent of the Cultural Revolution and then again just before China’s efflorescence retracted in the new millennium. You will see no explicit political statements but subtle subversions of recognizable symbols and figures that act as mood and shadow signposts to disillusion.
Some of her paintings are dependent on each other for full context. The canvas titled ‘A Boat’ seems to recreate a black-and-white photograph of little girls being rowed in a boat....More
Exhibition Space
Tags
Metadata
Claims
Press Release
Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Li Daiyun: Broken Monument, the gallery’s second solo exhibition with the artist. The exhibition features twelve acrylic-on-canvas paintings from the years 2014 - 2017, at a time when the artist was preoccupied by the failed promises of China’s modern history, in her own and in her parents’/grandparents’ generation. These are moments of optimism and innocence seen through the retro-sadness of hope lost. They are about youthful exuberance at the advent of the Cultural Revolution and then again just before China’s efflorescence retracted in the new millennium. You will see no explicit political statements but subtle subversions of recognizable symbols and figures that act as mood and shadow signposts to disillusion.
Some of her paintings are dependent on each other for full context. The canvas titled ‘A Boat’ seems to recreate a black-and-white photograph of little girls being rowed in a boat....More
Exhibition Space
Tags
Artist
More Exhibitions at Ethan Cohen Gallery
Similar Exhibitions
