SELECTED WORKS BY Sun Yuan and Peng Yu
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Sun Yuan and Peng Yu
Old Persons Home
2007
13 x life size sculptures and 13 x dynamoelectric wheel chairs
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Sun Yuan and Peng Yu are two of China's most controversial artists, renown for working with extreme materials such as human fat tissue, live animals, and baby cadavers to deal with issues of perception, death, and the human condition. In Old Person's Home Sun & Peng present a shocking scene of an even more grotesque kind. Hilariously wicked, their satirical models of decrepit OAPS look suspiciously familiar to world leaders, long crippled and impotent, left to battle it out in true geriatric style. Placed in electric wheelchairs, the withered, toothless, senile, and drooling, are set on a collision course for harmless ‘skirmish' as they roll about the gallery at snail's pace, crashing into each other at random in a grizzly parody of the U.N.dead. |
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu
Old Persons Home
2007
13 x life size sculptures and 13 x dynamoelectric wheel chairs
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Sun Yuan and Peng Yu
Angel (and 4 details)
2008
Life size sculpture in fibre-reinforced polymer and silica gel
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ARTIST INFORMATION
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu's BIOGRAPHY
1972
Born in Beijing, Sun Yaun
Lives and works in Beijing
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
Higher, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
2004
Ghent Spring, Contemporary Art Financial Award, Ghent, Belgium
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005
The 51st Venice Biennale (China Pavilion), Venice
Mah-jong Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunst Museum, Bern, Switzerland
To Each His Own, Zero Art Space, Beijing
Ten Thousand Years Post-Contemporary City, Beijing
2004
All Under Heaven - Ancient and Contemporary Chinese Art, MuHKA:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
The Virtue And The Vice, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
What is Art?, Shanxi Art Museum, Xi’an, China
Australia - Asia Traffic, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Australia
2004 Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea
Between Past And Future: New Photography and Video from China, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
2003
Second Hand Reality, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Left Wing, Beijing
Return to Nature, Shenghua Arts Centre, Nanjing, China
2002
The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
2001
2001 International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan
Get Out of Control, Berlin
Winner: The Contemporary Chinese Art Award of CCAA, Beijing
2000
Indulge in Hurt, Sculpture Research Fellow of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
5th Biennale of Lyon, Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
Fuck Off!, Donglang Gallery, Shanghai
1999
Post-Sense Sensibility Alien Bodies & Delusion (Basement), Beijing
1997
Counter-Perspectives: The Environment & Us, Beijing
Inside, Tongdao Gallery Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Peng Yu's Biography and Exhibitions
1974
Born in Heilongjiang, Peng Yu
Currently lives and works in Beijing
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005
The 51st Venice Biennale Venice
Mah-jong Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunst Museum, Bern, Switzerland
To Each His Own, Zero Art Space, Beijing, China
Ten Thousand Years Post-Contemporary City, Beijing
2004
All Under Heaven, MuHKA: Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
The Virtue And The Vice, Museum Art Contemporary, Lyon, France
What is Art?, Museum Art Shanxi, Xi’an, China
Australia - Asia Traffic, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Australia
2004 Kwangju Biennale Kwangju, Korea
2003
Short Film Festival (French/Asian) edition, Bangkok
Second Hand Reality, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Left Wing, Beijing
Return to Nature, Shenghua Arts Centre, Nanjing, China
2001
2001 International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan
Get Out of Control, Berli
The Contemporary Chinese Art Award of CCAA, Beijing
2000
Food As Art, Beijing
Indulge In Hurt, Sculpture Research Fellow of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
The 5th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
Fuck Off!, Donglang Gallery, Shanghai
1999
Civilization and Life, Beijing
1998
Counter-Perspectives-The Environment & Us, Beijing
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