Fuck Off (art Exhibition) - Notable Works

Notable Works

Accidental Dropping

Ai Weiwei is so concerned with Chinese history as a whole and the fact that people are not playing the proper role in learning about it or preserving it. By dropping a near-priceless artifact, Ai is essentially asking if the Chinese people really care about their history, and why not? It is taking something that is worth an immense amount of money and reducing it to shards. If he can do this with an artifact this important, it should suffice to raise awareness about the importance of all aspects of Chinese history.

Golden Sunlight (Performance)

He Yuchang does a large amount of performance art and is known to push the limits in what he does. His goal is to “seek enduring and fearless confrontation with reality and a poetic expression for this.”

Chinese Landscape: Tattoo No. 2

Huang Yan sees landscape paintings as a way of expressing himself. The landscapes he paints show tranquility, and does so on a variety of things. These scenes are painted on his body, on pork, and even on cow bones.

Mouse

Jin Le experiments with a wide variety of materials in order to demonstrate what he thinks that people and animals would look like if scientists succeeded in combining them into one form.

Peace series No. 19

Liang Yue uses photoshop as his main form of expression. He attempts to photoshop a variety of ads onto photos he takes and then post them absolutely everywhere in an attempt to require people to see them.

Paradise Lost No. 17

Meng Huang was born in Beijing, and says “I grew up, knowing nothing. Now I live in Beijing and find that works of art stars are very much westernized.” His works seem to be reminiscent of an almost unattainable land that was once a paradise, but is now sad and downtrodden.

Stamping on Water

Song Dong notes “I find more pleasure in doing ‘art’ as a matter because of the openness of artistic language. As I understand it, the time is over when artistic styles are defined by medium, method and paradigm. When I make use of these, the only thing that I have in mind is whether they fit my ideas.” His work seems to show a lot of disparity in life and the fact that humans are a lot less important to the world around them.

Skin Graft

Zhu Yu is a very outspoken artist who uses his work to make a statement. His work is aimed at making people think about the world around them. He says that “We’re not very afraid that we are not thinking what others are thinking since such an issue is taken care of by our spirit. What we are afraid of is that people are thinking what they are not supposed to think. So we need to re-think over what people initially take to be right, and abstract out everything that has nothing to do with reality.”

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