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Yuan Gong (Chinese 原弓; pinyin yuán gōng), born in Shanghai in 1961, is a Chinese contemporary artist. He has obtained a PhD degree in theory of art at the Chinese National Academy of Arts in 2012, but has immersed himself in different aspects of Chinese contemporary art since the 1990s. Being both creator and researcher, designer and planner, Yuan Gong is a multiple facets artist playing at the interface of conceptual art, performance and fine arts. Using a large variety of media, his artworks address many philosophical questions, reflecting his concerns about the Chinese society and impugning the art system, the exhibition format and the status of the artwork. == Life and works == Yuan Gong graduated from the Shanghai Printing Technical School with a specialization in artistic platemaking. He started his career as a designer before pursuing it as an artist. He held his first solo exhibition at the Hong Kong Arts Centre in 1997 and has participated in more than 20 group exhibitions around the world. He has hold solo exhibitions in main art spaces in China such as the Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou), the Tianrenheyi Art Center (Hangzhou),〔Pi Daojian, How History Moves Towards Current Time, in Catalogue, Reproduction-Renascence, Tian Ren He Yi Art Ltd, Chinese/ English, Hangzhou, China, 2013.〕 the Zendai Contemporary Art Space (Shanghai), Bund18 Ailing Foundation (Shanghai). Major exhibitions in which he has participated in recent years include the Collateral event “Voice of the Unseen” of the 55th Venice Biennale, the thematic exhibition at the China Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennale,〔Catalogue, Chinese Pavilion 54th Venice Biennial Yuan Gong's work SCENE, Ed. Arts Tracking Publishing Center, Editor Maoming Rong, (Chinese/ English), Beijing, China, 2011.〕〔Catalogue, The Scented air 6000 m3 - Much more than 6000 m3, Research Center for Aesthetics and Aesthetic Education at Peking University (Chinese/ English), Beijing, China, 2011.〕 the Copenhagen Art Festival, the 6th Prague Contemporary Art Festival, the inaugural Beijing 798 Biennale, the 4th China Songzhuang Culture and Art Festival and the 4th Chengdu Biennale. Within the “3+X” exhibition pattern, promoted by Shaheen Merali,〔Shaheen Merali, Shifts in the imaginary: tracing initiatives by the 3+1 Group, in Catalogue, People and things around contemporary art, Research Center for Aesthetics and Aesthetic Education at Peking University, Chinese/ English, Beijing, China, 2011.〕 Jin Weihong, Ai Weiwei and Shen Qibin, Yuan Gong has exhibited with artists such as Jin Feng, Qiu Zhijie, Xu Zhen, Zuoxiao Zuzhou, Xi Jianjun, the Gao Brothers and Zhao Zhao. Within these exhibitions the artists present their work in different spaces, emphasizing the independence of the creation process, of the artworks and of the artists themselves. In 2006 he launched the ''New Power China Biennale'' as a curator in order to promote young emerging Chinese artists. In 2007, he initiated the Tibet series Art Project “Transparent Scene” and organized artist residencies in Tibet for several months. After the 2008 Tibetan unrest (also known as"3.14 riots") he created ''China Size'', an installation-performance using a 3.14 scale, shown at the 4th Songzhuang Art Festival. The same year, following the Sichuan earthquake, he was volunteered researcher for one year in the disaster area, from which he produced some of his most iconic and controversial artworks, ''Sounding off 5.12 with Dong Feng'' and ''Red Curtains 5.12''. During this year, he conducted a meticulous survey gathering a rich amount of testimonies from which produced photographs, videos and installations made using materials collected in the disaster area.〔Catalogue, Process - Memoir of Yuan Gong, Ed. Chinese Arts and Humanities Press, Ma Cheng & Hu Yan 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yuan Gong」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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