ShanghART Gallery 香格纳画廊
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An Estranged Paradise (mo sheng tian tang)
YANG FUDONG 杨福东
1997 ~ 2002
single-channel film
35 mm b&w film transferred to DVD, Music by Jin Wang
76 minutes
Edition of 10 + 2AP
YFDv012

Zhuzi, a young intellectual, lives in Hangzhou, called heaven, because of the beautiful scenery. He, together with his fiancee Linshan, leads a quiet life there. The city's rainy season comes every March or April, but it came a bit early this year. The city became wet and cold during the rainy season. Zhuzi suddenly felt uncomfortable and with an emotion of nervousness. He did not know why the feeling came to him. He kept going to the hospital to examine his body, eyes, nose, ears, and skeleton with a suspicion that he was ill. After every exam, the doctor told Zhuzi that he was all right. Gradually, Zhuzi realized that the doctor was right. He did not suspect anything wrong with his health any longer. The quiet and prosaic life that he was leading was what he feared. He found that he still loves life. He felt that he should lead a happy life. At this moment, the rainy season in Hangzhou would end soon. (- Yang Fudong)

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Related Exhibitions:
Open Ending: TFAM Screening Program, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei 10.12, 2024 -12.29, 2024
Australian Cinémathèque - Yang Fudong Screenings, Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane, Australia 2023
Emotional Asia - Miyatsu Daisuke Collection, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan 09.15, 2022 -12.25, 2022
Duration: Chinese Art in Transformation, Beijing Mingsheng Art Museum, Beijing 09.25, 2020 -03.07, 2021
Cinema of Exhibition: Film in Contemporary Chinese Art, How Art Museum, Shanghai 03.17, 2019
ShanghART Video Art Salon / Talk & Screening: Black Ponderings No. 4, ShanghART Video Room Bldg. 8, 2555 Longteng Avenue, Xuhui District, Shanghai 11.04, 2017 -11.11, 2017
Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, U.S.A. 10.06, 2017 -01.07, 2018
Yang Fudong, The Light That I Feel, Daegu Art Museum, Daegue, Korea 06.10, 2016 -10.16, 2016
Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts, CCA Singapore, Singapore 12.12, 2014 -03.01, 2015
Re-View, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai 03.29, 2014 -06.30, 2014
Abu Dhabi Art 2013, Abu Dhabi Art Venue, Abu Dhabi, UAE 11.20, 2013 -11.23, 2013
Yang Fudong: Estranged Paradise, Works 1993-2013, Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco, U.S.A. 08.21, 2013 -12.01, 2013
Lilla Filmfestivalen i Bastad, Bastad, Torekov, Sweden 08.06, 2013 -08.11, 2013
A Century of Chinese Cinema, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, Canada 06.05, 2013 -08.11, 2013
Yang Fudong: Estranged Paradise, Works 1993-2013, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland 04.06, 2013 -05.26, 2013
Three Films by Yang Fudong, Moving Image Gallery, Singapore Art Museum (SAM) at 8Q, Singapore 2011
Shanghai Kino, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland 05.30, 2009 -07.19, 2009
Yang Fudong, GL STRAND, Copenhagen, Denmark 08.08, 2008 -10.19, 2008
Our Future, UCCA, Beijing 07.19, 2008 -10.12, 2008
5 Films, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, U.S.A. 09.12, 2004 -10.24, 2004
China Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A. 02.12, 2004 -02.16, 2004
Documenta 11, Kassel, Kassel, Germany 2002


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Related Texts:
An Estranged Paradise , Yang Fudong TEXT Feb,2003
An Interview on The Nightman Cometh , Li Zhenhua TEXT 2012-03-10
An Estranged Paradise , ucla.edu TEXT 2005