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ArchiveYu Xuhong obtained his B.A., M.A. & recently Ph.D. in Painting from the same China Academy of Art. Yu Xuhong’s works are a combination of c-print & direct drawing all over it with oil paint. He didn’t try to avoid this “new” reality of bringing virtual images into life.
Through this, he hopes to connect painting by hand & painting by machine. There are far deep purposes from the artist to marry the two methods of painting. On these three particular canvases, the artist’s purposes are reflected in the red guards of the Cultural Revolution period in the ’60s/’70s hiding behind deep forest. Yu made comparisons between the reality of the eye and the reality of the politics & raised questions.
Present day’s realistic environment of the imaging era is just like that political environment during the Cultural Revolution period. Perhaps even more influential to us in our decision making of what’s real & what’s false. How could we really judge with our wisdom the truth behind the hidden surface? What should the real really be like? Yu’s canvases to a large degree present to us a kind of thinking of phenomenology.
 Yu Xuhong, Are you cold this winter, angel, 150x200cm, oil on canvas over c-print, 2009. |
