Private View: 31 March, 11-16h
Location: SinArts Gallery (Google Maps)
SinArts Gallery is proud to present a new artist at the gallery. Over the past years, we have shown some occasional works by Du Rongkun, but we are now proud to announce a closer collaboration. SinArts Gallery now represents Du Rongkun in the Benelux.
To celebrate this moment we are excited to have created a first project presentation of new works by his hand.
Du Rongkun was born in Quanzhou, Fujian province, China in 1983 and graduated from Fujian Normal University Fine Arts College in 2007. Since then he has seen his practice grow, exploring new themes, and showing across the globe.
For this presentation, we will be bringing together several mixed media works he has created over the past two years. Part of a larger series called the Ladder of Consciousness, each work features a tiny human figure, stuck in a desolate box resembling a home or at least an architectural structure. The impossibility to escape from these constraints makes each work a fascinating reflection on contemporary society and the limitations we experience.
We have included three paintings in our selection. Each piece has become a 3-dimensional experience sucking the viewer into the vortex it represents. Rough and gritty materials evoke an all-encompassing dark storm we cannot seem to escape from.
The exhibition will be on view through April.
Corner, 2020, wood composite, 23x40x6cm.
The sleeper, 2020, wood composite, 15x14x10cm.
Works
Bio
Du Rongkun (b. 1983) is an artist from Fuzhou, China. After graduating in 2007 from Fujian Normal University Fine Arts College he has held several solo exhibitions in Hong Kong, China, and other places and participated several experimental art projects across the globe. In 2018, he was invited to participate in the New Star Art Award Residency Project in Amsterdam and offered an opportunity to further his studies in Europe.
Du Rongkun’s practice reflects on ideology in a vacuum. To the artist, human ideology and human inner space are independent. With the passing of time, this conscious space will also change. Du’s works typically describe one of these states and put forward a personal perspective.
Du Rongkun’s works have shifted from painting on canvas to three-dimensional installations over the past three years. The addition of figure sculptures and materials such as mirrors, barbed wire and cement have become typical of his work. Most of the works are not large and want to convey ideological relationships through narrow spaces and simple color changes.