New Middle Class 2018, video, 3’27”. Photo: Studio Abbruzzese
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New Middle Class 2018, video, 3’27”. Photo: Studio Abbruzzese
New Middle Class 2018, video, 3’27”. Photo: Studio Abbruzzese
InnerScapes Installation view 2018. Galleria Continua, Beijing. Photo Yang Hao
InnerScapes Installation view 2018. Galleria Continua, Beijing. Photo Yang Hao
InnerScapes Installation view 2018. Galleria Continua, Beijing. Photo Yang Hao
A happy girl, 2002, video, 1' 18''
A happy girl, 2002, video, 1' 18''
One by One, 2003, video, 3’
Kanxuan! Ai!, 1999, video, 1' 22''
Island, 2006-2009, Video installation - 4 videos (2 Yuan! 2 Yuan! / 1 Pound! 1 Pound! / 1 Euro! 1 Euro! / 1 Dollar! 1 Dollar!)
Looking looking looking for…, 2001, video, 2' 42''
Looking looking looking for…, 2001, video, 2' 42''
Looking looking looking for…, 2001, video, 2' 42''
Chorus, 2001, video, 1’ 50’’
A happy girl, 2002, video, 1' 18''
Kanxuan! Ai!, 1999, video, 1' 22''
One by One, 2003, video, 3’
One by One, 2003, video, 3’
100 times, 2003, video, 11'
100 times, 2003, video, 11'
100 times, 2003, video, 11'
Nothing!, 2003, video, 1'56''
Coffee is black, 2003-2006, photograph, 120 x 90 cm
Meng huang yu, 2010, video, Sound, 6 minutes
Sugar is white, 2006, photograph, 120 x 95 cm
Kan Xuan was born in 1972 in Xuancheng, Anhui Province, China.
Kan Xuan was born towards the end of the Cultural Revolution, in the early 1970s. Her initial training combines the classical practice of classical Chinese ink painting with experimental video, accompanied by artists at the forefront of Chinese conceptualism such as Geng Jianyi (1962, China) and Zhang Peili (1957, China). Their early efforts in Hangzhou paved the way for video art and conceptualism, which gave rise to many of the most interesting artistic practices of the last twenty years. Ranging from performance to photography and video her early works focus on everyday life, recording in a meditative conscious way.
Kan Xuan’s extraordinary ability has always been that of communicating and articulating the real presence, “the here and now”, addressing issues that have no time and that demonstrate the materiality of existence and subjectivity. Her work is marvellously human, it portrays an immediate sense of being as a sensual and visceral experience in which aesthetics is interpreted in a combination of sight, touch and sound. Her relational play of the body with objects and phenomena fascinates the observer attracted by the small pleasures of the experience that often converge in a strong sense of irony.
Adel Abdessemed Etel Adnan Ai Weiwei Leila Alaoui Juan Araujo Kader Attia Barbana Bojadzi Daniel Buren Cai Guo-Qiang Alejandro Campins Iván Capote Yoan Capote Loris Cecchini Elizabet Cerviño Chen Zhen Nikhil Chopra Marcelo Cidade Carlos Cruz-Diez Jonathas de Andrade Berlinde De Bruyckere Leandro Erlich Carlos Garaicoa Osvaldo González Antony Gormley Gu Dexin Shilpa Gupta Subodh Gupta Carsten Höller Eva Jospin JR Ilya & Emilia Kabakov Zhanna Kadyrova Kan Xuan Anish Kapoor André Komatsu Jannis Kounellis Julio Le Parc Luis López-Chávez Jorge Macchi Ahmed Mater Cildo Meireles José Mesías Sabrina Mezzaqui Moataz Nasr Rudi Ninov Hans Op de Beeck Ornaghi & Prestinari Giovanni Ozzola Susana Pilar Michelangelo Pistoletto Qiu Zhijie Tobias Rehberger Arcangelo Sassolino Manuela Sedmach Serse Kiki Smith Nedko Solakov Marta Spagnoli José Antonio Suárez Londoño Hiroshi Sugimoto Sun Yuan & Peng Yu Ana Maria Tavares Pascale Marthine Tayou Armando Testa Nari Ward Sislej Xhafa José Yaque Zhuang Hui
