"Hypertension" International Art Network Exhibition
Issue 9
When such a soul torture is asked
Most people will say: I want to live first
There is no dignity, there is no bottom line
Not to save people, but to live
Fernando Gimnez (Spain)
Sun Guangyi - Illness, Anxiety, Running for Life - Modern Civilization
Materials: antique rice paper, ink
Xiong Tao - "Standard Like --- Dragon"
Xiong Tao - "Standard Portrait - Unicorn"
Xiong Tao - "Under the Bodhi Tree 1"
Xiong Tao - "Under the Linden Tree 2"
Anxiety! It made me really mistakenly think that the world was collapsing, festering, and destroying at a speed that was visible to the naked eye. Spiritual emptiness and panic forced me to start with religion for answers, and when I read some of the teachings roughly, each religion said that its own God is the only Allah in the universe, which made people confused.
Fortunately, the creation of painting has continued, transferring the tattered world and inner uneasiness to the picture, which should be used to entertain oneself and be a comfort.
Feng Xin - "Sick Cat" series
Size: 36X50cm Oil on canvas 2018
I'm sick, humanity is sick, society is sick
Lu Shang - "Shadows" in 2023
Nino Delinada (Brazil) – "Fighting for a Sport"
Size: 120X120cm Acrylic on canvas
Theresa Grau
尺寸：117X130cm Rabbit tail, pigments, shellac, oil 2023
In the slums of the soul, pulsating the essence of life, irrepressible, eternal, a constant reminder of existence, a metallic voice, the song of a nightingale.
Ouyang Cheng - "Inpatient Department"
Wang Lanlin – "Red Cage" performance art
Red Cage
by chance
Passing by a half-open door
Get in
Gently lock the door
inside
Red makes people crazy
space
So narrow and Xiaoice cold
Time
Churn is maddening
freely
has been hindered from losing
struggle
In that day and night
Cage iron pipes
It seems to be pierced into an uneasy body
Stirring the blood that flows
blood
Slowly expands, clogs
Accumulate, more and more
The body can't bear it
The weight of the plasma
finally
Bang
Such as the leakage of the atomic bomb
Erupting everywhere
Red cage
After all, it can't be stopped
Broken body wreckage
Go and find the right to freedom
Wang Lanlin 2023.10.19. Morning
Yang Yuchen – "Beating-Life", Paper Synthesis, September 2023
In the midst of chaos
Standing impressedly
My beating life
Entangled, entangled
I felt more and more painful
I want to break free, I want to breathe
But to no avail
Little by little, it penetrated into my flesh and skin
Hollow out my insides and tear my wounds
And I can only be
Leave your own blood at your disposal
Flow to eternity that does not know what the ultimate is
Ealing
The topic of hypertension hits the general mental state of the world today. Last month, I also had a major surgery after a massive gastrointestinal hemorrhage, and my blood pressure in the ward was very high.
Zhao Zhiwen - "Happening 2020.8.4" acrylic on canvas
Zhao Zhiwen - "Happening 2015.10.29" acrylic on canvas
"The Matter of Blood Pressure"
When people reach middle age, friends often ask, "How are you doing?" "One refers to work or life situations, and the other is probably more to refer to physical condition. Most people will answer, "Three highs"! One of the highest is high blood pressure. The symptoms of hypertension often seem to be more obvious and high-profile, and people pay more attention to it. However, there is also a more niche blood pressure problem, such as low blood pressure. It also has no obvious discomfort and symptoms at ordinary times, and every time I ask the doctor how to treat it during a physical examination, the doctor just tells me that the treatment of low blood pressure is more troublesome, and if it is serious, it may be more troublesome than high blood pressure.
The title of the exhibition "Hypertension" reminds me of the above. Most of my works in the past ten years have focused on the reports in the news media, and every day some catastrophic events occur in the world, which are like "high blood pressure", stimulating and disturbing the minds of the world, making people uneasy and angry... However, there are also some things that happen like boiling frogs in warm water, they are like "low blood pressure", it seems that there is not so serious or much harm for a while, but after a long time, it is difficult to return, and it is too late to regret it... I can't change the world, but one thing I can do is to be a spectator and choose and "record" this world from my own perspective.
Zhao Zhiwen 2023.10.20
Yang Lijie - "List Price" AI
Yang Lijie - "Cross"
Size: 21X60X80cm Device / Iron wire, barbed wire, medical gauze, straw / 2023
Zhou Jian's essay:
The bottleneck encountered by contemporary world civilization is how to view competition, which includes not only competition between species, but also competition between individuals within species, and more importantly, the struggle between species and the environment, that is, can human beings survive without the shackles of the earth's environment? I am highly hesitant about this, so the uncertainty of the future does not pose a pressure on the human structure.
Fernando Gimnez (Spain)
Sun Guangyi
Xiong Tao
Feng Xin
Lu Shang
Nino Delinada (Brazil)
Theresa Grau
Ouyang Cheng
Wang Lan Berlin
Ealing
Zhao Zhiwen
Yang Lijie
Zhou Jian
There are many patients in the medical school, and the number is in the queue
Academic Advising
Academic advisor：
Lin Wang (Famous Critic)
Professor of the Department of Fine Arts of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, doctoral supervisor of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts
Wei Yang (Famous Critic)
He is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Hunan Normal University, and a tutor for master's students
Duanting Wang (Famous Critic)
Doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Fine Arts, Chinese Academy of Arts
Xioaxin Chen (Famous Critic)
He is a non-partisan director of the World Chinese Artists Association and a Chinese art critic.
Chengfeng Gu (Famous Critic)
Professor of the School of Fine Arts, Nanjing University of the Arts, Director of the Contemporary Visual Art Research Center of Nanyi
Exhibition producer and curator
Producer, Curator：
Jingjing Shi (International Curator)
Producer and curator of the exhibitions "Sex Therapy" and "Self-Portrait".
Yaxin Hao (Curator)
Post-95 feminist artist and curator
Organizers:
Shi Jingjing, Artbank
Italian magazine "ZETMAG".
Co-organizers:
Talent Technology Exchange and Development Center of China Science and Technology
Chongqing Tongmen Art Institution
International Art News Network
ZenCaos&EtroM press office management
"High Blood Pressure" producer Shi Jingjing
"Metamorphosis Transformation" Exhibition:
Curator: Hao Yaxin, a post-95 collector
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