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| Focus - Lin Tian Miao Print Exhibition, 2008 聚焦－ 林天苗版画作品展 |
I visited HK Art Show this year, there are a lot of creative and interesting arts work, and this one art piece above caught my attention which composted by varies sizes of white balls with strings all around placing on a large white background canvas. The artist is Lin Tian Miao, one of the most well known and the most influential Chinese contemporary female artist in the world. Lin's arts in installation art, conceptual photography and other creations have shown a strong personal style and femininity. She specializes in personal life experience with the delicate material sensitive to the unique combination of sentiment, the work shown by pure relaxation and ease and impressive.
This art piece was shown in Lin's first solo print exhibition on April 2008 at Beijing, which continuethe style of her previous works, creative understanding of himself into printmaking, the subversion of the traditional print concepts. Prints in this exhibition is Lin Miao-day prints the field with the world renowned Singapore Tyler Print Institute (Singapore Tyler Print Institute) in collaboration. There, she and prints from around the world-class experts and paper masters production of close exchanges and cooperation, which took two months to make the final completed two series of works: "Focus" (Focus), and "see video" (Seeing Shadow). Lin Miao had broken the conventional print processes, starting from the paper, the integration of a variety of plate bold way to break the copper plate, silk screen prints, such as different types of boundaries, the process is full of chance, alone can not be replicated in series of paintings. Two series of works are to enlarge the image as the background of fuzzy, by wire, wire, foam and other materials on the screen of different reconstruction, material and image formation of a subtle dialogue between their own sense of its being changed. "Focus" (Focus) is a magnified picture as the background characters, fuzzy amplification, loss of focus, material processing, and reproduce the process of focal length, said overlap between the cultural metaphor. "See video" (Seeing Shadow) select some have been
demolished, or are destroyed, the background of traditional architecture, delicate, sensitive emotions into images and a rich fantasy material texture, culture away, space-time dynamic image change in the paper solidification surface.Printmaking as a new attempt Lin Tianmiao art media, no doubt broaden her artistic language, rich expression of her, and her work also gives new possibilities for prints. New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) surprised at the forest-dau seedlings given the angry and personal prints, the collection of its four print works, and in the 'diversity - 1970 Since: Contemporary art direction" (Multiplex: 1970 Until Now, Direction fo the Modern Art) exhibtion.
Lin Tianmiao @ MOMA
New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) surprised at the forest-day seedlings given the angry and personal prints, the collection of its four print works, and in the "diversity -1970 Since: Contemporary art direction" (Multiplex: 1970 Until Now, Direction of the Modern Art) exhibition.
Before working as an artist, TianMiao is a textile designer, and she often use thread and string on her works on paper. With Focus IC, TianMiao projected a distorted photograph onto a sheet of wet paper, then she enbedded the thread and nose onto her nose and mouth area. Once the paper was dry, she actually printed the image.
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Focus I C2006. Lithograph and screenprint with thread additions, Sheet: 50 x 39 3/4" (127 x 101 cm). Publisher: unpublished. Printer: Singapore Tyler Print Institute. Editon: unique. Fund for the Twenty-First Century. © 2010 Lin Tianmiao |
"This is a photograph is from a young girl face.
From my experience if the image is clear, you might stand there for few minutes, then you left. If you loose the focus, maybe you will stand there for longer time to try to understand what's happen, what is that and why they lost the focus
This girl can be anyone, can be my daughter, your daughter. When I was very young, Mao's portrait was everywhere, and we have social security picture, your picture must showed where you from, where are you, what position you have. I want the audience to loose the focus, for audience to use imagination
I think this one is quite special, because why that peaceful girl, why that she has a lot of things in her mouth, this is the question: why
I use arts to explain my heart and explain my mind, this is my job."
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Focus III B2006. Lithograph and screenprint with embossing, composition (irreg.) and sheet: 50 x 39 3/4" (127 x 101 cm). Printer: Singapore Tyler Print Institute Singapore. Publisher: unpublished. Edition: unique. Fund for the Twenty-First Century. © 2010 Lin Tianmiao |
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Focus XV A2006. Lithograph and screenprint with embossing, Sheet: 50 x 39 3/4" (127 x 101 cm). Fund for the Twenty-First Century. © 2010 Lin Tianmiao |
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Seeing Shadows VIII A2006. Lithograph and screenprint with thread additions on four sheets, sheet (.a, irreg.): 43 1/4 x 30 9/16" (109.8 x 77.6 cm); sheet (.b, irreg.): 43 11/16 x 29 1/2" (111 x 75 cm);sheet (.c, irreg.): 42 5/8 x 29 1/2" (108.3 x 75 cm); sheet (.d, irreg.): 43 1/4 x 29 3/4" (109.8 x 75.5 cm); overall (approx.): 43 1/8 x 119" (109.5 x 302.3 cm). Fund for the Twenty-First Century. © 2010 Lin Tianmiao |
Lin Tian Miao's Biography
Present Lives in Beijing, China
1989 Graduated from Art Student League, New York, NY
1984 Graduated from Fine Art Department, Capital Normal University, China
1961 Born in Taiyuan Shanxi Province, China
2008
Focus. Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
Lin Tianmiao. Long March Space, Beijing, China
2007
Focus: on Paper. Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
2004
Non Zero. Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China
2002 Focus. The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
1997
Bound-Unbound 1995-1997. Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China
1995
Open Studio. Baofang Hutong 12#, Beijing, China
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Pulp Stories I. Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
2008
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection. Berkeley Museum of Art, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2007
Global Feminisms. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2006
Asian Contemporary Art In Print in Celebration of Asia Society's 50th Anniversary 2006. Asia Society and Museum, New York, NY
Asian Contemporary Art In Print. The Gallery of Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI)
Martell Artist of the Year 2006. National Gallery of China, Beijing
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection. Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany
2005 Rapt: Austral-Asia Zero Five. Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
About Beauty. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
ShangHai Cool—Creative Reproduction. Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
The New Works of Wang, Gong Xin & Lin Tianmiao. Courtyard Gallery Annex, Beijing, China
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
Xiangfeng! Chinese avant-garde sculpture. Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, Netherlands
Fairy Tales Forever. ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark
2004
Between Past and Future. ICP and Museum of Asia Society, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
Concrete Horizons. Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Officina Asia. Gallery d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
2003 Echigo-Tsunami Art Triennial. Tokyo, Japan
Arles Photograph Art Festival. Arles, France
New Zone Chinese Art. Zacheta National Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2002
2nd Fukouka Asian Art Trienniale 2002. Fukouka Asian Art Museum, Fukouka City, Japan
Gwangju Biennial 2002. Gwangiu, Korea
Shanghai Biennial 2002. Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Guangzhou Triennial 2002. Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Paris-Pekin. Espace Cardin, Paris, France
2001
Shout on the Face. Earl Lu Gallery Lasalle – Sia College of the Arts, SingaporeThe New-Media Art Festival: Non-Linear Narrative. The Gallery of National Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Threads of Vision: Toward a New Feminine Poetics. Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH
Floating Chimeras. Edsvik Konst Och Kultur, Solletuna, Sweden
Translated Acts. Haus der Kuluren der Welt, Berlin, Germany and Queens Museum of Art, NY
Wang GongXin & Lin Tianmiao's New Works. Loft New Media Art Space, Beijing, China
The Digital Art Festival 2001. Loft New Media Art Space, Beijing, China
2000
At the New Century 1979-1999. Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu,China
Inside/Out New Chinese Art. National Gallery of Australia, Parkes, Canberra, Australia
Home? Contemporary Art Project. Shanghai, China
Inside/Out New Chinese Art. Hong Kong Museum of Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, China
Bed/Chair. Xuxian Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
1999 Revolutionary Capitals: Beijing in London. Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
The Second Yearlong Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition. He Xiang Ning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Inside/Out New Chinese Art. Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Magnetic Writing/ Marching Ideas, Works on Paper. It Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Cologne/Beijing/Beijing/Cologne: Exchange Exhibition. Gothaer Kunstforum, Cologne, Germany
Inside/Out New Chinese Art. Mexico Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico
Food for Thought: An Insight in Chinese Contemporary Art. Mu Art Foundation, Netherlands
1998 Woman – Century. National Gallery of China, Beijing, China
Life: Contemporary Chinese Art. Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Neo Lagoon: Contemporary Art of North East Asia. Niigata Prefecture Museum, Japan
Inside/Out: New Chinese Art. Asia Society, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
1997
Crack in the Continent. Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Fifth International Istanbul Biennial. Istanbul, Turkey
Between Ego and Society. Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Another Long March. Chasse Kazerme, Breda, Netherlands
Against the Tide. Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Demonstration of Video Art 1997. Gallery of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1995
File No.1 – Conceptual Documents for Impossible Art. Soho Biennial, New York, NY
Women Approach to Contemporary Art. Beijing Art Museum, Beijing, China
Chinese Women's Artists Invitation Show. National Gallery of China, Beijing, China
1993 Group Show. Ground Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988
Group Show. City Gallery, Courtland, NY
1985
Beijing Youth Painting Exhibition. National Gallery of China, Beijing, China
Youth Artist Association Show. National Gallery of China, Beijing, China
Beijing Youth Painting Exhibition. Liulichang, Beijing, China
MUSEUM AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
LITERATUREFibicher, B. and Frehner, M., Eds. Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection. Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2005.
Grosenick, Uta and Caspar Schübbe. Ed. China Art Book. Cologne: Dumont Buchverlag, 2007.
Hanru, Hou. Somewhere Between Utopia and Chaos: Contemporary Chinese Art Today. Netherlands, 1997.
He Hao. Ed. Non Zero. China: Timezone 8, 2004.
Martinez, Rosa. Cream—Contemporary Art in Culture. London: Phaidon Press, 1998.
Qian, Zhijian. Gathering Wind. 1997 Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art. Tokyo: Watari Museum, 1997. p.175.
Smith, Karen. Towards the Millennium: From Land's End to the Peripheral Verge. Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art. Tokyo: Watari Museum, 1997.
Wang Gongxin and Lin Tianmiao. Here? Or There? China: Timezone 8, 2005.
Xianfeng! Chinese avant-garde sculpture. Netherlands: Museum Beelden aan Zee, 2005.
2008
"Women, Where Art Thou.?" Deccan Herald, September 14, 2008.
Cotter, Holland. "China's Female Artists Quietly Emerge." "Beijing's Less Visible Artists." New York Times, July 30, 2008.
London, Barbara. "Accelerated Vision: Chinese Video's Leap Forward." Modern Painters, March, 2008.
1999
Chiu, Melissa. "Thread Concrete and Women's Installation art in China." Art Asia Pacific, 1999.
1998
Dal Lago, Francesca. "Against the Tide, Art." Asia Pacific, January, 1998.
1997
Martinez, Rosa. "Istanbul Biennial: Curatorial Interpretations." Flash Art, November-December, 1997.
Smith, Karen. "Lin Tianmiao at the Central Academy of Fine Art." Sculpture News, Winter, 1997.
1996
Hanru, Hou. "Metropolitan Individuals." Flash Art, November-December, 1996.
1995
Smith, Karen. "Lin Tianmiao." Asia – Pacific Sculpture, Spring, 1995.
"In Peking wird eine menge riskiert." Aktionen die Obrigkeit, August,1995
林天苗1961生于山西省太原市
1984毕业于首都师范大学美术系，北京
1989纽约艺术家联盟学院
现为自由艺术家
个展：
1997 缠3 - 再剪开
中央美院画廊，北京
群展：
2001 破坏的形象
克里夫兰当代艺术中心，俄亥俄洲，美国
漂浮的妄想
艾德厄克文化中心，斯德哥尔摩，瑞典
转换的形态
世界文化宫，柏林，德国；皇后美术馆，纽约，美国
数码艺术节2001
藏酷新媒体艺术空间，北京
2000 世纪之门
成都美术馆，成都，四川
家
月星家居广场，上海
1999 北京与伦敦
ICA当代艺术中心，伦敦，英国
第二届当代雕塑展
何香凝美术馆，深圳，广东
内与外 - 新中国艺术展
SFMOMA当代美术馆，旧金山，美国；墨西哥当代美术馆，墨西哥
精神食粮
Mu艺术基金会，荷兰
1997 龟裂的大陆 - 当代中国美术展
和多利当代美术馆，东京，日本
第五届伊斯坦布尔
伊斯坦布尔，土尔其
另一个长征 - 中国当代艺术展
不瑞达艺术中心，荷兰
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