Installation view of ‘Yu Hong: Another One Bites the Dust’, Chiesetta della Misericordia, Cannaregio, Venice, Italy; Special Off-Site Exhibition Presented by the Asian Art Initiative of the Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Asian Art Initiative of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, presents the first major exhibition in Europe of artist Yu Hong. Taking place concurrently with the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, from 20 April to 24 November 2024, the presentation is curated by Dr. Alexandra Munroe, Senior Curator at Large, Global Arts, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation.
The exhibition features new figurative and narrative paintings that respond to the architectural and cultural context of the Chiesetta della Misericordia, a deconsecrated Romanesque-Byzantine church founded by Augustinian friars in the tenth century. Conditioned by this architectural site, the exhibition presents Yu Hong’s work outside the bounds of art-historical conventions, examining the artist’s worlding of supernatural realism as a radically anachronistic stance that further destabilises our notions of contemporary life.
Installation view of ‘Yu Hong: Islands of the Mind’, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
For her first solo exhibition in London, Yu Hong presents a series of large-scale new acrylic-on-canvas paintings, unveiling a selection of poignant and poetic works that each explore a distinctive state of mind or consciousness. Inspired by Arnold Böcklin’s Island of the Dead (1880-1901), this suite of paintings expands on the body of work unveiled in Yu Hong’s solo exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah in 2023, and follows her first major exhibition in Europe, where she transformed the Chiesetta della Misericordia in Venice through a series of new works, organised by The Asian Art Initiative of the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
“Island of Oblivion” 迷茫岛
Acrylic on canvas
250 x 300 cm
2024
“Island of Expectation” 瞭望岛
Acrylic on canvas
250 x 300 cm
2024
“Island of Survival” 生存岛
Acrylic on canvas
“Island of Survival” 生存岛
2024
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