“2016 ART MO Art Exhibition in Macao – YANGKAI ART PROJECT” will be held from November 30 to January 5 2017 by Blanc Art Co, organized by the Macau Art and Culture Industry Association and Friends of Art Association. The exhibition will show seven works of contemporary artist Yang Kai from the period of 2012 to 2013. The media is ink on paper, and the series name is (Ceremonial), The opening of the exhibition will be held on December 18th at 4pm in Blanc Art exhibition room.
Yang Kai’s participation of art begins with the concept of “things”, and in this concept clearly shows the inherent contradictions and contradictions. He acknowledges that the general “thing-oriented” ontology emphasizes that there is no essential difference between “things and spirit” and the “halo” that art distributes. Therefore, his creation is not so much given to the subjective status of things equal to people, rather than in his creation – that is, in the design and manufacture of a “work” to dilute and digest people to “material” put on transcendence on the outfit.
But Yang Kai is not satisfied with the average boredom. He set a very contemporary restriction on his work of “de-enchantment”, and retained the sense of merchandise of the works, and gave them the mystical character of the commodity which Marx called “the magic of commodity”
When describing a table, Marx described it as “flaunting the crowd to the side, not only with its feet on the ground … with the head upside down, it gives birth through its head, it extracts from its wooden head a whole lineage of fantastic or prodigious creatures”Thus in the mood of consumer goods, material is given the soul. For Marx, this is the tricks of capitalism. Yang Kai has this intrigue as intrusion, and challenge the current effective mechanism for the review of the rules, the rules applied to the creation.
Rites No.14
Chinese Ink on Paper
70 x 50 cm
2013
6/20
Yang Kai graduated from the University for Creative Arts in UK, Fine Art Degree (UK Kent Institute of Art & Design) is now working in Beijing and London. In his world of artistic creation, he has attempted to define and present his judgment and feelings of culture by seeking a style with a strong personal flavor. In his eyes, the media is to ensure that the form and meaning of the key generation. Having received the college-style traditional training while he study in China, as well as western education in the UK. Yang Kai’s media exploration evoluted to multi-dimensional divergence with a balance. After many attempts, he finally chose ink as his media, to tell the culture of a nation in the present of existence and significance.
In addition to the organizers and co-organizers, the exhibition is supported by the Macao Special Administrative Region Cultural Affairs Bureau, the Macau Foundation, the Macau Special Administrative Region Tourist Office, the Macau Museum of Art, the Macau Tower Convention and Entertainment Center, the Lotus Art Museum, Blanc Art Co, Lotus Macau, Macao Chamber of Arts Commerce(MCAC). For more details of the exhibition, please call (853) 2850 1055 or email info@blancart.co .