{"id":7856,"date":"2013-12-06T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/?p=7856"},"modified":"2022-12-17T15:59:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T15:59:06","slug":"yang-shaobin-midnight-chill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/zh-hant\/yang-shaobin-midnight-chill\/","title":{"rendered":"Yang Shaobin \u2013 Midnight Chill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201c\u2026since 1999\u2033: Yang Shaobin solo show<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander Ochs Galleries<\/strong> <\/a>(Besselstrasse 14, Berlin) Sep 21\u2013Nov 23, 2013 (extended)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furnace-hot people, molten, abused, abusing, filled the paintings of Yang Shaobin (b. 1963), televisual violence and internet grotesquery playing to our sadomasochistic scopophilia. You couldn\u2019t look away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2009, he began exploring the other side of these images, removing the heat. They are still figurative and preoccupied with violence, but have shifted to a lower and colder register. His recent Berlin exhibition at Alexander Ochs Galleries showed nine new, large-scale paintings \u2014 blue monochromes. These \u201cphotographic negatives\u201d look intensely at surveillance and the subject\u2019s moral response point. The heat-sensitive camera is on, but no heat is detected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yang Shaobin\uff0c\u201cUntitled\u201d, oil on canvas\uff0c190 x 170 cm\uff0c2013
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There are also quotes from the two most famous Spanish artists of the Late Renaissance and Baroque periods, Velazquez and the Cretan-born El Greco. The former is noted for his humanization \u2013 democratization? \u2013 of the then-prevalent tradition of idealistic representation, and the latter for his manipulation of form, particularly by stretching perspective and using strong color. Flagging such quotes so deliberately, Yang is simultaneously stating a case for looking at art, its moral role and his place in the painting canon. A mouth is left open in a Baconian scream (a Velazquez dwarf, with a hint of Marx); a masked and helmeted riot policeman observes from the turret of an armored car; a close-up of a young child, agitated, shows her watching something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paintings are very much about painting. White holes have been left in the blue skins, or painted onto them \u2013 here an egg shape, there the minute reflection on the tip of a nose. A shell lies at the foot of the seated dwarf, drawing attention to its interior space and infinite surface. And all over there is this luscious m\u00e9lange of blues \u2013 including Midnight, Ultramarine, Cobalt and Prussian \u2013 not pellucid but deep, emotional and confusing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yang Shaobin\uff0c\u201cUntitled\u201d, oil on canvas\uff0c140 x 180 cm\uff0c2013
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Yang Shaobin\uff0c\u201cUntitled No.2\u201d, oil on canvas\uff0c280 x 210 cm\uff0c2012
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The key work in the series \u2014 the only one with any color besides blue \u2014 shows an ordinary man wearing a camouflage jacket, against a wall, in a defensive pose and with a resolute face. His foot transgresses but does not overstep a thin red\/green line. He stands in a pool of pale blue light that climbs the wall. Or maybe there is no wall, just darkness \u2013 the spatial context is deliberately ambiguous, even recalling Barnett Newman\u2019s zip paintings. The expression \u201cthe thin red line\u201d originally came from an incident in 1854 during the Crimean War, in which a small group of British infantry routed a Russian Cavalry charge despite the odds against them. In 1892 the English writer and poet, Rudyard Kipling, used the line in a poem about the lot of the ordinary British Soldier, in slang called \u201cTommy Atkins\u201d or \u201cTommies\u201d, as popularized in the First World War. More recently, \u201cThe Thin Red Line\u201d was the title of Terence Mallick\u2019s celebrated 1998 film about U.S. soldiers in Guadalcanal, fighting the Japanese imperial army. In the pivotal closing scene, one soldier sacrifices himself to save his comrades. The \u201cthin red line\u201d in Yang Shaobin\u2019s portrait, then, has various references, but these are not ambiguous. The \u201cthin red line\u201d in Kipling\u2019s poem indicates another demarcation. Writing on Mallick\u2019s film, David Thompson in\u00a0The Guardian<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0recently noted that it is also the line that separates the sane from the mad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yang Shaobin\uff0c\u201cUntitled\u201d, oil on canvas\uff0c85 x 80 cm\uff0c2013
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