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    NEWS Giovanni-Motta-1-1.jpg.webp Jonny-Boy-1.jpg.webp 截屏2022-03-05 下午3.30.00.png 截屏2022-03-05 下午5.31.39.png 截屏2022-03-05 下午4.35.21.png Peter Jeppson |DEN GODHJÄRTADE KONSTNÄREN | @ artworks ​Giovanni Motta | NFT and meditation: Giovanni Motta and the search for the inner child | @The Cryptonomist ​Giovanni Motta | Giovanni Motta and his success in the NFT world | @The Cryptonomist Ruini Shi | Hi21 Young Art Fair 2021: interview with Ruini Shi | @ Hi艺术 ​Peter Jeppson | On the hunt for complex emotions: interview with Peter Jeppson | @ArtMazeMag

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    Open the Door Longyue Dong & Joy Li & Yuhui Zhai INSTALLATION VIEWS WORKS ARTISTS The door is closed, so tightly like the eyelid of a soundly sleeping man. The closure of the door let the opening return to the state of a wall. There’s no smell at all, as if we were marching in the desert with everything in front of us turning into a dead zone. To enter GALLERY FUNC one has to go through at least two “doors”: the first requires a password gained beforehand to get into the building; and to go through the second, one needs to ring the doorbell and ask the doorman to open the door. It’s not a design by the gallery but reflects that the building was initially built for private rather than public use. The presence of the gallery has transformed the nature of the building, creating subtly new meanings from within. To the visitors, the way to enter the gallery space enriches their psychological experience, and to some extent, even changes the pattern of relations, making the exhibition all the more subjective. ​ Door is a wall in a different form, which allows us to enter a building without destroying its walls and gives us the opportunity to reconstruct it. According to Latour’s theories, doors together with hinges, as potential of actors, impose restrictions upon our actions and stipulate that we have to pass at a certain speed and only through a particular and fixed hole. In Open the Door, there’re more than two doors waiting to be open. When visitors open the door inside the space, the door hinge will automatically spring back (please watch out) and the door will return back to the closed state as if it were a wall. Hence, the door’s role shifts constantly between “wall” and “hole”, letting viewers to carve out their own viewing space. In Les Amusements Naturels, Pierre Albert-Birot wrote a short poem: “An open door, we enter. A closed door, a den. The world pulse beats beyond my door.” In this context, we may change it a little bit and say “The art pulse beats inside my door”. ​ Playing with the door, the exhibition creates a three-layered experience: the first is a public space, the experience of a gallery; the second is a private space, the experience of the original residential structure; and the third is a hidden space, the “absent” occupants of this residence– with a “lobby” with a real reception desk and two artists’ rooms. Through this three-layered experience, the exhibition evokes the crisis of wandering public memory and the psychological space in which we are alienated. In the exhibition, Joy LI searches for the temptation and power embedded in commodities and public objects; in the materialistic world of commodities, "a fake butterfly kills a swarm of real butterflies", and real ants crawl towards fake cherries. ZHAI Yuhui's visual language in the form of "landscape" corresponds more directly to this world as a pictorial fictional approach, where the small space is occupied by huge cardboard boxes, and the collision of lightweight and easy-to-access materials with monumental images alienates the sensory experience. DONG Longyue's parody and portrayal of the ancient horseshoe crab epeatedly uses its dome shape and its varitaions to refer to the dual issue of connection, using the dome and trail of the horseshoe crab as a scale. They expound upon a broader narrative inside the doors to wake us from our silence and their presence confronts us with an action agenda and a rescue mission. Open the door and dive in. Text: WONG Tone ​ ​ About the artists ​ Joy LI was born in 1999 in Gansu, China. She currently lives and works in Shenzhen, China. She obtained her BFA degree in Interdisciplinary Sculpture with a Theater minor at Maryland Institute College of Art in 2021. She will be receiving her MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art in 2026. Her works include sculpture, performance art, theater, video, and music, exploring the tension of interactions between objects, emotions, and relationships. In her works, she reinterprets objects and bodies to magnify the allure and danger inherent in everyday items, allowing the audience to re-experience and interact familiar things in unfamiliar ways. Her recent solo exhibitions include: “Green Water”, 2023, LINSEED, Shanghai; “Golden Lines and White Lightings”, 2023, Aranya, Chengde; “Salomé”, 2022, 33ml OFFSPACE, Shanghai; “Collective Dreaming”, 2020, BBOX, Baltimore; “26th Benefit Fashion Show: Catalyst", 2019, Falvey Hall, Baltimore; “The Skin of a Human Being”, 2019, Gateway Gallery 1, Baltimore; “You’ll Never Meet Mac DeMarco”, 2018, BBOX, Baltimore. Her selected group exhibitions include: “At the beginning, you find nothing there 24, Petitree, Shenzhen; “Embodies Rituals”, 2024, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou; “After Human: Marks of the Beasts”, 2024, Tomorrow Maybe, Hong Kong; “The Nostalgic Collection”, 2024, Tree Art Museum, Beijing; “Tie Up”, 2023, Mugyewon, LINSEED, Seoul; “LAB 2: Co-Working Space”, 2022, LIU HAISU Art Museum, Shanghai; “Art Nova 100”, 2021, Guardian Art Center, Beijing; “A Hunger Artist”, 2021, Élysée, Shanghai; “Rabbit Hole”, 2021, Arkila Art Center, Shanghai; “The Crowd”, 2021, Jin Chen Yi Fei Ming Art Gallery, Shanghai; “Absence/Attendance”, 2021, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai; “Communication Strategies: From Checkers to complex systems”, 2021, Time Art Museum, Chengdu; “Redirecting”, 2021, Tree Art Museum, Beijing; “Identity:Smashing Labels”, 2019, Main 0 Gallery, Baltimore; “Humanscape”, 2019, Fox Building, Baltimore; “Coordinates”, 2019, Piano Gallery, Baltimore. ​ DONG Longyue graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts MFA program in the study of moving image and painting in 2020, lives and works in Shanghai. In his art practice, he deals with visible and invisible shapes from the perspective of language, and attempts to carry out the creative practices of writing, performance, video, installation and other artistic media through the rules of his specific structural game. Recent exhibitions include: “We the singular in multiple ghosts. I the multiple as part of whole.”, Institute of Contemporary Arts at NYU Shanghai, 2023; “RAM Highlights: The Good Life (tgl)” , Rockbund Art Museum Shanghai, 2022; “The Dwelling Place of the Other in Me”, the Power Station of Art Shanghai, 2022; “the Archiving the Spaces of Anxiety—— From the Burrow to the Peach Colony”, OCAT Institute, 2021; “Meeting Point III: The Unanswered Question”, AM Art Space, 2021. ​ ZHAI Yuhui , Born in 1996 in Henan Province, he now lives and works in Hangzhou. In 2020, he was recommended to the Cross-border Sculpture Studio of China Academy of Art, and received his master's degree in 2023. In 2021, he became a member of the Copper Yard T-project, and the characteristics of the work of the space field group also inspired him. Today, his work presents a special structural state, in which materials, working methods, and metaphors of images are condensed, and finally form a perceptual world parallel to reality. In this way, he embodied his concern for a wide range of social issues. ​ About the curator WONG Tone , born in 1997, graduated from the China Academy of Art and majored in Public Art, and works and lives in Shanghai and Shenzhen. She founds and runs the artist curatorial organization 214agency, pioneering in merging vibrant artists into versatile spaces and venues, and integrating art resources into a commercially friendly portfolio.

  • The Blooming Moment | Gallery Func

    A Collaboration with WAREHOUSE gallery Artist: Jade Kim Curator: Joey Chan Jul 29 - Aug 27 2022 The Blooming Moment We are delighted to collaborate with WAREHOUSE gallery to present the work of Jade Kim as WAREHOUSE gallery’s first exhibition in Shanghai. The artist has always been involved in the creative field, and after being in exhibition planning industry for a decade, Jade decided to pursue the expression of his true passion through paintings and sculptures. “MIN” , the character that is inspired by his beloved wife, is the manifestation and recreation of his story, a special gift to her. She sends a rebellious yet quiet vibe, altogether with a sense of peacefulness. The perseverance yet tender characteristics of a mature woman can be interpreted as the scream for current difficulties in our society. Just as Jade Kim says, “I wanted to remind myself by looking at my paintings [of] what we [had] lost and what we had to protect.’ INSTALLATION VIEWS WORKS ARTIST 17(sRGB).jpg Jade Kim Jade Kim (b.1981, Korea), a visual artist. He paints and sculpts the character "MIN", a fictional character based on his wife. The personality and story of his wife are big inspirations to his work, along with the rapidly changing world we live in, and the occasional surprises that occur in it. "MIN" has dreamy eyes, child-like shape and demeanour, giving people a sense of innocence. She is often portrayed as a character representing "protection" and "love". Kim's work exudes a calmness vibe and is intended to resonate with the viewer. ​

  • Jingyi Wang | Gallery Func

    Wang jingyi b.1991 Wang Jingyi is a realist artist born and raised in China. She graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in China in 2013 with a BA in Painting. And received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2016. She had a solo exhibition at Amerasia Bank Gallery in New York in 2021. WORK OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS ARTICLES 錨點 1 ARTWORKS 錨點 4 錨點 3 EXHIBITION a10c0567a229ff161e5036c490c0f2f.jpg 0X0A9185.jpg GZ Contemporary Art Fair Dec 26 - Dec 29, 2021 Hidden Message Nov 10 - Dec 12, 2021

  • Giorgio Celin | Gallery Func

    錨點 1 Giorgio Celin b.1986 Giorgio Celin (b. 1986 in Barranquilla, Colombia) currently lives and works in Barcelona (Spain). Celin through his art sheds light on the Latinx Diaspora phenomenon, underlining the gloomy sense of not belonging to a specific geographical location and the immigrants’ struggle to get accepted and integrated into our society. The impression of suffering visible on the figures depicted by the artist is not solely tied to the theme of migration, but also to homosexuality and the representation of non-objectified queer bodies. WORK OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS ARTICLES 錨點 2 ARTWORKS EXHIBITION 錨點 3 0X0A9241.jpg Hidden Message Nov 10 - Dec 12, 2021

  • Alexis Jang | Gallery Func

    錨點 1 Alexis Jang b.1985 WORK OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS ARTICLES Alexis Jang is an illustrator and painter working and living in Berlin, Germany. A native of Korea, Jang moved to New York at the age of 19 and now works and lives in Berlin, Germany. The artist has always been inspired by the idea of 'home' and although being an outsider forever has always been an option for her, she is still fascinated by the idea of adapting or settling down. Loneliness also plays an important role, something that all human beings experience, but most intensely at this time, more than ever before. The artist attempts to convey the "feeling of happiness" through the familiar, feminine and sometimes absurd lens of her work. 錨點 2 ARTWORKS 錨點 3 EXHIBITIONS DSC03876.jpg West Bund Art & Design 2022 Nov10 - Nov 13 2022

  • Matthew F Fisher 暂时不更新 | Gallery Func

    Matthew F Fisher WORK OVERVIEW ARTICLES EXHIBITIONS Matthew F. Fisher was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1976 and lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2000. ​ Artist Talk: The idea of being an artist chose me. My parents were extremely supportive of my desire to make art and encouraged it throughout my life. Honestly, it was the only thing I was good at as a child. What art is to me is an opportunity to see the world through someone else's eyes and hands. I tend to enjoy other artists who make work radically different from my own. I want to see, feel, and think like they do; as, I can't do that with my own work. Art is an open door to the rest of the world. One just has to look and walk through. I am always looking and finding inspiration in any number of different places. I love old books for the opportunity to find forgotten knowledge, I prefer illustrations to photographs for the reason stated above, and I always try to surprise myself with the imagery and in turn surprise the viewer. What these paintings are about is the idea of the universal and personal. We have all seen sunsets, waves, stars, the solar system as a whole. But it's the way that we remember those moments that my work is grounded in. These are so big, that for us to understand them they must become small, like memories in our mind. I am so thrilled to be able to present these paintings to a new audience. I hope you find that what I set out to paint is both familiar and abstract. That our shared experiences allow for others to see what I see, feel what I feel, and understand that deeper meaning behind these works is known. Gained and understood through a life being lived. ​ ​ ​ ​ 錨點 1 錨點 2 ARTWORK 錨點 3 EXHIBITIONS GZ Contemporary Art Fair ​ December 26 - December 29, 2021 The Fiction July 11- August 11, 2021 錨點 4

  • Yajing Ge | Gallery Func

    錨點 1 GE Yajing b.1990 WORK OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS ARTICLES Ge Yajing was born in Luoyang in 1990 and graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the School of Fine Arts of Nanjing Normal University as a postgraduate in 2016. For the artist, she prefers the natural, even slightly juvenile, art to the buzz of reality and the alienation of social situations, while constantly polishing to make her painting language clearer and richer. Yajing feels that all those fine polishings and layers of padding are very important for the early stages of painting. She says, "Painting is like some kind of naturally growing organic matter, driven more by the creator's intuition, any kind of material has its own unique texture and language, "going deeper and deeper", rearranging and editing, like a game or a film. " 錨點 2 ARTWORKS 錨點 3 EXHIBITIONS DSC03850.jpg West Bund Art & Design 2022 Nov10 - Nov 13 2022

  • Juan de Larica | Gallery Func

    錨點 1 Juan de Larica b.1995 Ding Hongdan, born in Guangzhou in December1995, graduated from the Third Studio of Oil Painting Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts, receiving a bachelor's degree in 2018 and a master's degree in 2021. She is currently studying a Ph.D. program at CAFA, supervised by professor Liu Xiaodong. ​ WORK OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS ARTICLES ARTWORKS 錨點 2 EXHIBITION 錨點 3

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