Sui Jianguo

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Mao suit sculpture in Time Square in Hong Kong

Sui Jianguo (Chin. 隋建國 also Sui JianGuo , * 1956 in Qingdao , China ) is a Chinese artist and professor of sculpture at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing .

Life

Sui is the child of a poor working class family. In his hometown of Qingdao, he first learned traditional Chinese art before engaging in Western art. In the 1980s he graduated from Shandong Art College and went to Beijing where he graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing with a master's degree. He was then taken on as a research assistant in the sculpture department and rented his own studio in the Chinese capital. His first lectures as a visiting professor also took him abroad to Australia and France . He is now a full professor of sculpture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Artistic work

In addition to sculpture, Sui also works with the means of video art, installation art and performance. Sui was best known in the West for his often strongly colored sculptures, which mostly have a strong reference to Chinese history and are supposed to reflect the ambivalence between socialism and capitalist modern China. So he cast the classic Mao suit in iron and bronze and let it rust or painted it in bright colors. The oversized red toy dinosaurs labeled “Made in China” were also discussed a lot.

Red toy dinosaur sculpture by Sui

Exhibitions

  • 1995: From the Middle Kingdom - Chinese Avant-garde Art Since 1979 , Center d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona
  • 1996: Reality, Present, and Future - Chinese Contemporary Art , Beijing International Art Museum, Beijing
  • 1998: Personal Touch - Chinese Contemporary Art , TEDA Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin, China
  • 2000: Sharing Exoticisms - Contemporary Art Lyon Biennale , Lyon
  • 2002: Made in China , Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
  • 2004: Light As Fuck , National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
  • 2005: Sui Jianguo: The Sleep of Reason , Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
  • 2008: Half - life of a Dream - Contemporary Chinese Art , SFMOMA, San Francisco
  • 2009: Motion / Tension: New Work by SuiJianguo , Today Art Museum, Beijing
  • 2011: Blickachsen 8, Bad Homburg
  • 2011: The Hague Under Heaven - Suijianguo Sculpture , Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Sui Jianguo on the CAFA website
  2. ^ Sui Jianguo at Blickachsen 2011 in Bad Homburg
  3. ↑ Mao's New Tailor: Sui Jianguo ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , artzine.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.artzinechina.com
  4. ↑ Chinese artist Sui Jianguo puts Mao to rest in colorful metaphor , San Francisco Chronicle
personal data
SURNAME Sui, Jianguo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese artist and college professor of sculpture
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Qingdao , China