Two Different Times, One World

Opening: 18 July 2014, 6-9pm
Duration: 18 July 2014 – 24 August 2014, 11am – 7pm (Closed Every Monday)
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Singapore, 30th June 2014 – ShanghART Gallery is pleased to organize and host the most anticipated
Pu Jie’s solo exhibition 'Two Different Times, One World’, opens on 18th July to 24th August 2014.
This exhibition showcases 17 artworks by Pu Jie, presenting iconic representations of his juxtaposed
memories as an attempt to show the fragmentary, ever-shifting and incoherent nature of life.
“The backbone of Chinese Contemporary Art is the re-pondering towards Chinese culture with a critical
attitude,” says Pu Jie. Avoiding trappings of both nostalgia and stereotypes, his artworks are based on
fragments of memories and experiences, which compose a contemporary narration. Pu Jie's artworks
are images from his mind, the way he thinks and his philosophy; they are typically vivid monochrome of
red, yellow, green, and blue with historical and contemporary conception seemingly fused into one
visual body. His oeuvres depict a social structure that wavers between China's past history and its
present-day contemporary developments, condensing his unique insights onto his canvases. Pu Jie
states, “The adoption of a painterly dual visual angle is a partial overlapping of the past and present,
East and West, communism and commodity. Such overlapping is filled with cultural mutation and
confrontation. It clears up the visual effect and ponders the flowing changes of the Chinese society
throughout the past decades.”

Installation View