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symbol of humans transcendence and sublimation guided by belief and faith. Such an action, however,

is challenging to the artists body. The materialized body is physiological and instinctive, and the

artists clothes become a metaphor of the body.

During his performance, He Yunchang puts himself in a dangerous relation, where the flammable

clothes could get out of control and imperil the body as a material being at any time. The slow and

tense course set up by the artist pulls the audience repeatedly from the burning, the symbol of hope

and holiness, to the physical taboo. The samsara between ignition and extinguishment keeps going as

time goes by. The control and shaping of extremity in He Yunchangs works is transformed into a form

of communication to be experienced, which endows the audience with a hypothetic self-imagination.

Such an impact stems from the resources and languages the artist draws from real life, from his

pursuit of the classical force, his renewed experience of reality, and the noble pureness and greatness

in belief.

The nirvana of phoenix, after all, is a historical legend. No matter how hard the righteous cause or

big love tries to redeem the world in the abyss of misery, sacrificing life for righteousness will

inevitably face the pang when life clashes against reality, which is as real as the bodys burn inflicted by

the fire. The flesh and blood is as vivid as fire, and also as heavy.

Life is so short in the vast river of time, and ideals break into countless sparks in the ever-

changing world: ten thousand years are too long, seize the day and seize the hour.

Down the altars, the classical transcendence and belief symbolized by Nirvana could either be a

subject of suspicion or a force of suspicion.

Text: Cui Cancan, curator


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Biography He Yunchang (A Chang)

1967, born in Yunnan, China

Lives and works in Beijing, China

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010 The Wings of Live Art He Yunchang, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne,

Switzerland

2009 The Wings of Live Art He Yunchang, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China

2008 The Ability to Exist, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

2007 Rock Touring Around Great Britain, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012 Bodies, Feizi Gallery Shanghai-Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

2010 The state of thingsNational RAT Museum of China

Nature of chinaTURE COLUE Museum

RESHAPING HISTORYBeijing,Awards for Reshaping History

2009 Attitude, Shit-Art Center, Zhengzhou, China

The State of Things. Brussels/Beijing, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium

Art in Busan 2009: Inter-City, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea

City-net Asia 2009, Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul, South Korea

The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2009, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

Yi Pai - Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

13 NO KAOS, Duffy Gallery, Kunming, China; Jie Fu Gallery, Beijing, China

2008 "Our Future" Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Ullens Center, Beijing, China

"China: Construction and Deconstruction," Sao Paulo, Brazil Museum of Contemporary Art

Invitational Exhibition

"China's 30 years of abstraction" Beijing Wall Art Gallery

"Historical Sites Sculptures" Contemporary Art Exhibition, Central Bi-tang Video Gallery

"Breeding" Art Gate Gallery Beijing

"Beijing 08 'Contemporary Art Exhibition", Beijing, Black Bridge Gallery, Beijing, China

"Free Fall", Beijing, Chen Ling Loh Contemporary Space, Beijing, China

2007 Out of control, KU Art Center, Beijing, China

Performa 07, Washington Square Park, New York, USANet, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China

Starting from the Southwest - Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Southwest China,

Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Foreign Objects, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

2006 He Yunchang: Works, Spacex, Exeter, UK, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK

Cold Energy: Sensibility and Power, Pyo Gallery, Beijing, China

2005 The Wall Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York,

USA; Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China

Sky of Destiny - 2005 Invitation Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Oil Paintings,

Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China


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Inward Gazes Documentary of Chinese Performance Art, Macao Museum of Art, Macao

Ten times ten The Second Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Songzhuang Artists Village,

Beijing

Mahjong Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne,

Switzerland

2004 Officina Asia, Galleria dArte Moderna, Bologna, Italy

Chine, le corps partout? (China, the body everywhere?), Museum of Contemporary Art,

Marseilles, France

Matchmaking at Suzhou Creek, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China

Is it Art?, Shanxi Provincial Art Museum, Xian, China

A Changs Persistence, Beijing Tokyo Art Project, Beijing, China

Degenerated, Modern Chinese Art Foundation (MCAF), Gent, Belgium

2003 Sharjah International Art Biennial, Sharjah, UAE

Artificial Aspiration, Sanhe Art Center, Beijing, China

Together with Migrants, Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

Lijiang International Art Festival, Lijiang, China

2002 Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea

Chinese Modernity, Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP), Sao Paulo Brazil

Cut In, China Art Archives & Warehouse (CAAW), Beijing, China

New Spirit of Asian Art, Seoul, South Korea

Highlights of the Chengdu Biennale, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China

Run, Jump, Climb, Walk, Yuanyang Art Center, Beijing, China

2001 The 1st Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, Chengdu, China

Visibility, China Art Archives & Warehouse (CAAW), Beijing, China

Dislocation, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA

2000 Fuck Off, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China

Chinese Oil Paintings of the 20th Century show, National Art Museum of China, Beijing,

China

Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China


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Visitor information

Performance @BOZAR

He Yunchang

Performance: Nirvana Flesh

Adress

BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts

23, Rue Ravensteinstraat

1000 Brussels

Dates

Saturday 13.04.2013 > Sunday 14.04.2013

6pm-6pm (24h non stop)

Tickets

Free entrance

Solo Exhibition @ Art Brussels

Preview: 17.04.2013 (on invitation)

Art Fair: 18.04.2013 > 21.04.2013, 12am-7pm

Nocturne: 18.04.2013 > 21.04.2013, 7pm-10pm

Art Brussels

Local: Booth No. 3C-45

Brussels Expo

1, Place de Belgique

1020 Brussels

Press contact

Irene Laub, Feizi Gallery, 8 b rue de lAbbaye, 1050 Bruxelles

+32 473 91 85 06,[email protected]

www.feizi-gallery.com

Leen Daems, BOZAR

+32 479 98 66 07,[email protected]
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