Fu Xiaotong “Proliferation”
Chambers Fine Art
[Image: Fu Xiaotong "1,400,940" Pinpricks (2018) Handmade paper, 191 3/8 x 62 7/8 in.]
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Fu Xiaotong’s recent works are characterized by an evolution in her technique and a transition in her imagery from the landscape motifs with which she is most closely associated to a more abstract language of forms. No longer using a limited repertoire of directional pinpricks according to predetermined plans, she now starts from the center and works in a circular rhythm, softening the sturdy paper until it results in a pronounced three-dimensional surface. These undulating surfaces evoke a multitude of associations, organic, cellular, human or animal skin, breaking waves or breast-like forms that recall an important aspect of the work of Louise Bourgeois. Although the relationship of her work to traditional Chinese motifs is self-evident, it is also instructive to consider it in relation to artists such as Roman Opalka, who began painting numbers from one to infinity in 1965 or a work such as One Million Years (1999) by On Kawara.
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from June 07, 2018 to August 19, 2018