Galerie Paris-Beijing is pleased to announce the solo show of Miao Xiaochun, unanimously considered as the pioneer of digital art in China.

Echo reveals his most recent body of works, a stunning combination of paintings and 3D animations exploring the interfaces between the real and the virtual, the human and the digital, culture and technology. Professor in the Department of Photography and Digital Media at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, Miao Xiaochun has been relentlessly creating and building virtual universes, unlimited in size, perspective and imagination over the past 20 years. Populated by strange cybernetic beings, with no clothes, character or expression, these worlds combine the canons of European classical art history with highly technological and futuristic urban settings.

Restart, a 3D animation created between 2008 and 2010, succeed in combining in less than a 14-minutes video the most diverse objects with numberless references to art history, architecture, and design. Raphael’s frescoes Parnassus and The School of Athens come after the macabre scenario of Pieter Bruegel paintings (The Triumph of Death, Fall of Rebel Angels, Mad Meg). Despite their digital reconstruction and reinterpretation, all the original masterpieces are clearly recognizable. The work, which is terribly attractive and unsettling, evokes the unsolved myth of Eros and Thanatos and raises the question of discontent in an ultra-developed civilization, where technology troubles human drives and desires. Kind of fleshless avatars, the human figures in Restart are reduced to their mathematic essence, but seem to keep an emotional and atavistic connection to the perceptible world.

Date: May 12, 2016 - Jun 18, 2016

Opening: May 12, 2016, 18:00, Thursday

Venue: Galerie Paris-Beijing

Artist: Miao Xiaochun

Source: artlinkart.com