Cang Xin "The Shaman's Face"
798 Avant Gallery
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In his most series, "The Shaman's Face," Cang Xin has continued his departure from performance based art to reach into a visual world that the physical body is incapable of inhabiting, a world where the realms of nature, man, and spirit are bound up like threads in the rope of experience. And he has done so continuing to use his face as the primary visual symbol and conduit of expression. In these new works, saplings sprout out of eyeballs and tongues, insects rest peacefully on the artist's forehead, Cang Xin's face is transplanted on to the shell of a snail, and in multiple instances the head is totally isolated from anybody becoming a metaphorical representation of ritual and the human experience. These paintings reach into the supernatural, almost mythical world of Shamanism, where a human face becomes the medium for the interconnecting energies of spiritual realms.
[Image: Cang Xin "No Body, No. 2" (2007) Oil on canvas 180 x 140 cm.]
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from March 20, 2008 to April 14, 2008
Opening Reception: March 20, 6-8 pm.