June 1st, 2021 — July 30th, 2021
Modern and Tour de force
Traditional Eastern Crafts and Design in a New Time
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Modern and tour de force: Traditional Eastern Crafts and Design in a New Time showcases outstanding home design's artistic and heritage value across time and culture. This exhibition features classical Chinese furniture designed and handcrafted by Sunzen Art Gallery, highlighting the perfect unification of cultural significance and modern aesthetics. This exhibition aims to awaken innate appreciation towards ultimate craftsmanship and demonstrate the connection between people and their space.
This exhibition also showcases works made by the Vancouver-born, Chicago-based artist, Pan Yining, whose latest series, Life and Eat, was inspired by Asia's dining and living culture.
June 1st, 2021 — July 30th, 2021
Curated by Lin Li
Lobular Rosewood Violin-shaped back chart, Sunzen Art Gallery
Floating Tea Ceremony, Chinese furniture parts, fishing line, tea wares, and bonsai
Featuring artist: Pan Yining
Pan Yining is an interdisciplinary artist who currently lives and works in Vancouver and Chicago.
She engages in exploring the fundamental matter of materialism and the substance of beauty. Utilizing a contrast of textures, shapes, lines and colours to create contrast and confusion,and to explore the ambivalent relationships between materialism and pure aesthetic pursuit. White is a primary colour she uses, due to its numerous representational meanings in modern aesthetics, and absolute emptiness in materialistic thoughts. Her works also investigate issues with social and personal identities. She employs Chinese and Japanese languages to explore the impact of foreign characters on speakers and non-speakers, and further explore how linguistic structure shapes understandings and culture formation. Her larger scale installations aim to redefine space by recreating traditional Chinese landscape in a conceptual manner.
Pan Yining, 食 Shi (Eat), 2020. Cardboard, acrylic, found objects Lifesize (cube 4”x4”x4”)