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You're Invited
April 17, 2007    File under: Denver

The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar invites you to
FANG LIJUN HEADS
OPENING RECEPTION
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 6-9PM

Please join us for the opening reception of Fang Lijun's Heads at The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar. Artist Fang Lijun will be in attendance. This event is free and open to the public.

The largest work on view in Heads, Fang Lijun's first solo museum exhibition in the United States, is a large-scale installation consisting of 15,000 sculpted heads, cast in bronze and covered in gold leaf. Mounted on slender steel rods and installed in a grid-like formation at heights between twelve and fourteen inches, the diminutive heads sway with any change in air current, reinforcing the feeling of a unified throng of individuals. A second, related piece features life-sized sculptures of important individuals involved in China following the Cultural Revolution. A large-scale oil painting, comprised of 36 separate panels closely related to the sculptural works in the exhibition, is also on view.

Born in 1963 in Hebei province in China, Fang Lijun came of age in the years following the Cultural Revolution, during China's transition into a global economic power. He studied printmaking at China's prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts in Bejing. Still a student when his work was included in the influential No U-turn exhibition at the China Art Gallery in Bejing in 1989, Fang is now one of the most well-known contemporary artists working in China, and is represented in major collections worldwide.

Exhibition Open April 18-August 26, 2007

Posted by Jake Adam York at April 17, 2007 10:09 PM