NYAB Event - Feng Mengbo "Yi BiTe: Recent Works by Feng Mengbo"

Feng Mengbo "Yi BiTe: Recent Works by Feng Mengbo"

Chambers Fine Art

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Chambers Fine Art presents Yi BiTe: Recent Works by Feng Mengbo. For his first exhibition at Chambers Fine Art New York, Feng Mengbo continues his investigation of classical Chinese culture that began with Wrong Code: Sanshui without abandoning his deep immersion in every aspect of the cyber world. More than any other artist in China today, Feng Mengbo has been associated with the world of computers, video-games and youth culture. Exploring the darker aspects of this technology, he moved rapidly from CD-ROMs to actual games in which spectator participation became increasingly important. His vast interactive media-installation, Feng Mengbo: Restart was exhibited at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in 2009.

Beginning in 2005 Feng Mengbo returned to painting, not as a rejection of the technological orientation of his earlier work but as a supplement to it. After the Built to Order and Wrong Code: Sanshui series of paintings, Feng Mengbo has turned to fundamental texts such as the Jieziyuan Huazhuan (Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden) and other calligraphy and landscape copybooks as the source of this new body of work. At first glance the silver-leaf panels covered in silk screened patterns of black squares appear to be elegant abstractions, an unexpected development for an artist of Feng Mengbo’s transgressive persuasion. As soon as the source of these apparently random arrangements is revealed, however, their relationship with the rest of his oeuvre is apparent.

Media

• Painting
• Prints
• Other

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