Group Exhibition Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
curated by Francesco Bonami
ALLLOOKSAME? / TUTTTUGUALE?
Art from China, Japan and Korea
curated by Francesco Bonami
Turin 8 November 2006 - 11 February 2007
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Via Modane 16, Turin, Italy
Press view and opening: 8 November 2006
The Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo continues its year dedicated to Asia with the group show Alllooksame? / Tutttuguale?, Art from China, Japan and Korea, at their centre for contemporary art in Turin. The exhibition, curated by Francesco Bonami, unites forty artists with Asian roots, seemingly bound together by history and language yet culturally and creatively frequently at variance from one another.
The title of the exhibition has been borrowed from the web site www.alllooksame.com, set up by a youngster in Japan, partly as a joke and partly to rejoice the stereotype of "diversity at any cost", while also inevitably highlighting the contrasting characteristics of prejudice and racism.
Alllooksame? / Tutttuguale? humours the way Westerners may have difficulty in distinguishing the features, traditions and lifestyles of Chinese, Japanese and Korean people. Contrary to its title, the exhibition attempts to break through the generalist lines of thought about these countries and reveal new, multiple visions of three countries that have seen and are still seeing breathtaking change and development both socially and politically. The show aims to illustrate the contrasting and experimental sides of Asia and, especially in the light of the many exhibitions about China in recent years, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo hopes to provide a more complete picture of contemporary art in Asia through bodies of work by the new generation of artists from China, Japan and Korea - none of whom will have grown up with a feeling of inferiority towards the Western world that would have affected the people of these countries in the past. Together, the artists from these three countries are able to offer multiple views of the entire landscape in which they live, rather than a detailed one-sided one.
The works in the show range in media and include artists / works such as Korean artist Lee Yong Baek’s Angel Soldiers video with images of rich, colourful flowerbeds, out of which soldiers slowly emerge wearing flower print camouflage uniforms, while fellow Korean Lee Hyungkoo's presents marionette-like sculptures of the skeletons of Western cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny and Willy Coyote. The Chinese artist Shi Yong presents a series of light boxes that offer a nocturnal view of the tips of some of Shanghai's towering skyscrapers and the photographs of the Chinese artist Hu Yang illustrate the extremely rich or extremely modest interiors of private homes in Shanghai. The Japanese artist Sayaka Akiyama, who is presenting a site specific piece for the show, carefully embroiders routes and landscapes on road maps with brightly coloured thread. Another Japanese artist, Aida Makoto, presents a video of a comical and highly improbable Bin Laden.
The fa？ade of the Fondazione's centre in Turin will be part covered with a giant photograph, by the Chinese artist Jiang Zhi, of people on a beach shadowed by a luminous rainbow made up of brand names and product labels as a symbol of mass consumption. Again, on the exterior walls of the centre, visitors are greeted by a neon ideogram of the words China, Japan and Korea, created by the Chinese architect Ma Qingyung. This work has also been accepted as part of the circuit of the renowned international artists’ lights show Luci d’Artista, produced by the City of Turin.
The artists taking part in the show are: Cao Fei, Chen Qiulin, Chen Shaoxiong, Chen Xiaoyun, Hu Yang, Jiang Zhi, Kan Xuan, Li Shurui, Liang Juhui, Liu Ding, Liu Wei, Lu Chunsheng, Qingyun Ma, Shi Yong, Song Tao, Wang Xingwei, Xu Zhen, Yang Yong, Yang Zhenzhong. Coreani: Ayoama Satoru, Baik Hyunjhin, Choi Ho Chul, Gim Hongsok, Im Gook, Kim Beom, Kim Kira, Koo Donghee, Lee Hyungkoo, Lee Yong-Baek, Park Junebum, So Young Choi. Giapponesi: Akiyama Sayaka, Fukaya Etzuko, Kakitani Tomoki, Kaneuji Teppei, Kathy, Manabu Ikeda, Makoto Aida, Mori Chihiro and Shoji Michiko.
A catalogue to the show has been published by Electa (Milan) and contains texts by Francesco Bonami, Kwan-Hoon Lee, Minsuk Cho, David Chan, Carol Lu, Pi Li, Mami
Kataoka and Hu Fang. The design concept of the catalogue was created by the editorial and curatorial company BAO, based in Peking (Beatrice Lenza, Naihan Li, Philip Tinari).
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Listings information
Exhibition title: ALLLOOKSAME? / TUTTTUGUALE? Art from China, Japan, Korea
Artists: Chinese: Cao Fei, Chen Qiulin, Chen Shaoxiong, Chen Xiaoyun, Hu Yang, Jiang Zhi, Kan Xuan, Li Shurui, Liang Juhui, Liu Ding, Liu Wei, Lu Chunsheng, Qingyun Ma, Shi Yong, Song Tao, Wang Xingwei, Xu Zhen, Yang Yong, Yang Zhenzhong. Korean: Ayoama Satoru, Baik Hyunjhin, Choi Ho Chul, Gim Hongsok, Im Gook, Kim Beom, Kim Kira, Koo Donghee, Lee Hyungkoo, Lee Yong-Baek, Park Junebum, So Young Choi. Japanese: Akiyama Sayaka, Fukaya Etzuko, Kakitani Tomoki, Kaneuji Teppei, Kathy, Manabu Ikeda, Makoto Aida, Mori Chihiro, Shoji Michiko.
Curator: Francesco Bonami
Opening: Wednesday 8 November, 7pm
Exhibition dates: 8 November to 11 February 2007
Venue: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Via Modane 16, Turin
Organisation: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Hours/Admission: Tuesday through Sunday, Midday to 8pm
Thursdays, Midday to 11 pm. Closed on Mondays.
Full € 5 , Groups € 4, Reduced € 3
Catalogue: Published by Electa.
Produced by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Texts by Francesco Bonami, Giuliano Da Empoli, Minsuk Cho, David Chan, Carol Lu, Pi Li, Mami Kataoka, Hu Fang.
Concept design BAO Naihan Li, Philip Tinari, Beatrice Leanza
Info FSRR: tel. +39 011 3797600; fax +39 011 3797601
info@fondsrr.org www.fondsrr.org
Int. media FSRR: Helen Weaver, ITALY +39346 2165881
helen.weaver@fondsrr.org / helen.weaver@yahoo.co.uk
Listings information
Exhibition title: ALLLOOKSAME? / TUTTTUGUALE? Art from China, Japan, Korea
Artists: Chinese: Cao Fei, Chen Qiulin, Chen Shaoxiong, Chen Xiaoyun, Hu Yang, Jiang Zhi, Kan Xuan, Li Shurui, Liang Juhui, Liu Ding, Liu Wei, Lu Chunsheng, Qingyun Ma, Shi Yong, Song Tao, Wang Xingwei, Xu Zhen, Yang Yong, Yang Zhenzhong. Korean: Ayoama Satoru, Baik Hyunjhin, Choi Ho Chul, Gim Hongsok, Im Gook, Kim Beom, Kim Kira, Koo Donghee, Lee Hyungkoo, Lee Yong-Baek, Park Junebum, So Young Choi. Japanese: Akiyama Sayaka, Fukaya Etzuko, Kakitani Tomoki, Kaneuji Teppei, Kathy, Manabu Ikeda, Makoto Aida, Mori Chihiro, Shoji Michiko.
Curator: Francesco Bonami
Opening: Wednesday 8 November, 7pm
Exhibition dates: 8 November to 11 February 2007
Venue: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Via Modane 16, Turin
Organisation: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Hours/Admission: Tuesday through Sunday, Midday to 8pm
Thursdays, Midday to 11 pm. Closed on Mondays.
Full € 5 , Groups € 4, Reduced € 3
Catalogue: Published by Electa.
Produced by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Texts by Francesco Bonami, Giuliano Da Empoli, Minsuk Cho, David Chan, Carol Lu, Pi Li, Mami Kataoka, Hu Fang.
Concept design BAO Naihan Li, Philip Tinari, Beatrice Leanza
Info FSRR: tel. +39 011 3797600; fax +39 011 3797601
info@fondsrr.org www.fondsrr.org
Int. media FSRR: Helen Weaver, ITALY +39346 2165881
helen.weaver@fondsrr.org / helen.weaver@yahoo.co.uk
Artists
Chinese artists
Cao Fei
b. 1978 Canton, China
Lives and works in Canton, China
Chen Qiulin
b. 1975 Hubei Province, China
Lives and works in Peking, China
Chen Shaoxiong
b. 1962 Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
Lives and works in Canton
Chen Xiaoyun
b. 1971 Hubei Province, China
Lives and works in Hangzhou, China
Hu Yang
b. 1959 Shanghai, China
Lives and works in Shanghai, China
Jiang Zhi
b. 1971 Yuanjiang, Hunan, China
Lives and works in Shenzhen and Peking, China
Kan Xuan
b. 1972 XuanCheng, An’hui, China
Lives and works in Peking and Amsterdam
Li Shurui
b. 1981 Chongqing, China
Lives and works in Peking, China
Liang Juhui
1959 - 2006
Born and lived in Canton, China
Liu Ding
b. Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
Lives and works in Peking, China
Liu Wei
b. 1972 Peking, China
Lives and works in Peking, China
Lu Chunsheng
b. 1968 Changchun, China
Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea
Qingyun Ma
b. 1965 Shanghai, China
Lives and works in Shanghai, China
Shi Yong
b. 1963 Shanghai, China
Lives and works in Shanghai, China
Song Tao
b. 1979 Shanghai, China
Lives and works in Shanghai, China
Wang Xingwei
b. 1969 Shenyang, China
Lives and works in Shanghai, China
Xu Zhen
b. 1977 Shanghai, China
Lives and works in Shanghai, China
Yang Yong
b. 1975 Sichuan, China
Lives and works in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Yang Zhenzhong
b. 1968 Hangzhou, China
Lives and works in Shanghai, China
Korean artists
Baik Hyunjhin
b. 1972 Seoul, South Korea
Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea
Gim Hongsok
b. 1964 Seoul, South Korea
Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea
Im Gook
b. 1965 Seoul, South Korea
Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea
Kim Beom
b. 1963 Seoul, South Korea
Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea
Kim Kira
b. South Korea
Lives and works in Seoul and London
Koo Donghee
b. 1974 Seoul, South Korea
Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea
Lee Hyungkoo
b. 1969 Seoul, South Korea
Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea
Lee Yong-Baek
b. 1966 Kimpo, South Korea
Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea
Park Junebum
b. 1976 Seoul, South Korea
Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea
So Yung Choi
b. 1980 a Busan, South Korea
Lives and works in South Korea
Japanese artists
Akiyama Sayaka
b. 1971 Hyogo, Japan
Lives and works in Tokyo and Kanagawa, Japan
Makoto Aida
b. 1965 Niigata, Japan
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
Choi Ho Chul
b. 1965 Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in Boondang, South Korea
Chihiro Mori
b. 1978 Osaka, Japan
Lives and works in Kyoto, Japan
Etsuko Fukaya
b. 1981 Japan
Lives and works in Japan
Manabu Ikeda
b. 1973 Saga, Japan
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
Kathy
Group of three artists formed in 2002
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
Michiko Shoji
b. 1972 Yokohama, Japan
Lives and works in Yokohama, Japan
Aoyama Satoru
b. 1973 Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in London
Teppei Kaneuji
b. 1978 Osaka, Japan
Lives and works in Kyoto, Japan
Tomoki Kakitani
b. 1971 Osaka, Japan
Lives and works in Kyoto, Japan
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