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\u201cTwenty-One Poems of Lenin\u201d: exhibition by Chen Xiaoyun<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ShanghART Gallery<\/strong><\/a> ( Bldg 16, 50 Moganshan Rd., Shanghai, China), April 19\u2013Jun 11, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entering the exhibition space at ShanghART Gallery for the Chen Xiaoyun solo exhibition, I sensed a tumultuous undercurrent to the solemn atmosphere within. A color photograph on the wall showed three metal spheres being smelted on a bed of burning coals, the lick of blue-tipped flames a visual cue stoking the imagined temperature even higher; meanwhile, L\u2019Internationale<\/em>\u2014the anthem which once swept China\u2014bombards the ear. The title of this exhibition, \u201cTwenty-One Poems of Lenin\u201d is loaded with implications of the term \u201crevolution\u201d, inciting some ideas about idealism without much to do with historical reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1971, Chen Xiaoyun may be one of the few contemporary Chinese artists who can lay legitimate claim to personal memories of \u201cBolshevism\u201d or \u201crevolution\u201d, which lets us believe that his poeticized imaginings about Lenin, the Communist leader, have something to do with his personal experience. While Lenin harbored ambitions to overthrow an ancien r\u00e9gime<\/em> and the idealism to establish a new world order in exile throughout Europe, at roughly the same time, art in Europe was flush with a similar spirit of rebellion, with new movements like Dadaism and Futurism appearing. Revolutionaries resist tyranny, while artists topple the status quo. In Zurich, the birthplace of Dada, Duchamp might have used Lenin\u2019s coffee mug as an ashtray for his cigar\u2026.From here, Chen Xiaoyun finds no limits to the richly-imagined links between art and idealism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chen\u2019s works float by easily under the guise of refinement, imbued with an un-contrived sort of revolutionary romanticism\u2014a passage once covered in thorns has been lampooned into an oesophagus, and Vladimir Tatlin\u2019s Tower has been warped into a super-monument. The presentation of Chen Xiaoyun\u2019s bronze sculptures and other works reveals heavy traces of Modernism, and seemingly transports the viewer to an art historical display in a small European museum. Taking Lenin\u2019s words and the artist\u2019s own age, Chen Xiaoyun transplants his contemporary utopian fable into these 21 works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the pieces on show is Chen\u2019s ink-on-paper depiction of a dark rectangular object floating on a stormy sea\u2014it brings to mind the island fortress in The Count of Monte Cristo<\/em>, or the Titanic sailing towards its doom. Or still yet: this exhibition centered on ideals and their destruction might summon another kind of apparition\u2014a specter, the specter of Communism lingering in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chen Xiaoyun, \u201cApplicable to All Desultory Irresponsible Symbols with Revolution as the Starting Point\u201d, 150 x 220 cm, 2014
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Exhibition View
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Chen Xiaoyun, \u201cIn Distant Future in Visible Now or Confront the Cuboid on the Horizon Alone\u201d, 117 x 172 cm
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