He Xun : Fibonacci
November 6th.2021-January 22nd.2022
[He Xun : Fibonacci]
Hunsand Space will open the "Fibonacci-He Xun Solo Exhibition" on November 6, 2021. This exhibition is the first exhibition of He Xun in hunsand space and a presentation of the artist's latest works in recent three years.The name of the exhibition "Fibonacci" is derived from a work of the same name in this exhibition. The composition of this work is like a children's drawing, and the spiral images such as squid, Christmas tree, horns, keys, bamboo shoots and spinning tops are constantly appearing in the content of the screen. Rising and jumping in a flood of yellow.He Xun tries his best to match the image thinking of viewing things to the children's flat processing of images, so that the flat "clouds", "snowflakes" and "babies" are simulated as reflections of children's hearts; in the history of mankind, It is this kind of innocent reflection that generated a "totem" existence through countless baptisms of civilization.We see these totem symbols in different civilized contexts.He Xun is just continuing the path of immaterial image manifestation to describe and convey the power of "totem".
The artist reports that he is trying to perceive and understand a certain "truth" in a two-point five-dimensional intellectual way-the spiral structure existing in large time and space-time and small things; this is also a reciprocation between things and totems. Throughout the journey, the artist looks forward to welcoming the revival of "all things have spirits" along the way. In the process of totem generation, due to the continuous separation of the relationship between the image and the object, the image is gradually separated from the materiality and objectivity of the object. The artist then extracts a temperament that is only connected to the object from an "object". For example, the artist’s early work "A Look at Home I" describes the appearance of artist Yang Jian moving. The structure and sense of ritual composed of thick lines and diffuse yellow and white in the picture show a state of disorder and order during the event. ; Another example is the work "Rice", where the artist depicts the rice in the home one by one, stroke by stroke, so that the smallest and ordinary objects also have precise structure and emotion; Another example is the three large-scale paintings in the series of "Fibonacci", the artist's recent work. The artist juxtaposes the images, concepts and emotions harvested over the years in a standard picture similar to Thangka, which is like a sacred image saluted, and also like a child's literacy card. Through the weaving of sensibility and rationality, it seems to indicate a certain existence that can not be ignored.
This exhibition will display more than 20 works of the artist. Through these embryonic literal works such as "Seed", "Leaf" and "Fruit", we can clearly see this spiral road of separation and return.
The exhibition will be on view until January 22, 2022.
He Xun, 1984 born in Jiangxi Province, 2006 graduated from China Academy of Art, and currently lives and works in Hangzhou and Beijing. Member of the JIE JUE COMMUNITY. His creative medium includes paintings, installations and poetry and curating with attention to the symbolic role of agricultural civilization, wizard belief and literal habits in daily life. He emphasizes on the influence of neglected or suppressed language, folk customs, and totem worship on modern life, so as to seek for the common human emotional bonds, eternal memories and the course of its decline.
Recent solo exhibitions include: "Fibonacci" (Hunsand Space, Beijing, 2021); "Wang Jing" (imagokinetics+POP-UP GALLERY, Hangzhou, 2021); "Kalavinka" (Tong Gallery+Projects, Beijing, 2019); "The Second Oracle" (A+Contemporary, Shanghai, 2018); "Pearls of Citta" (Enclave Contemporary, Shenzhen, 2017); "Rural Rhapsody" (A+Contemporary, Shanghai, 2016), "Empty Baggage" (Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2013); and collected by Start Museum, GeKA and etc.
His poems and essays are published on journals as "West Lake", "Enclave", "Poem Jiangnan", "The Best Poems of China 2006", "Art World", "Artshard".Curation projects include "Go Live" with Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, "Suture: A Collection of Poetry by Contemporary Art Practitioners" with UCCA STORE, Beijing and etc.
