EXHIBITED:
Hyper Design - 6th Shanghai Biennale 2006, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, September 6 - December 5, 2006
Yang Qian New Works Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, December 27, 2006- January 7, 2007
ILLUSTRATED:
Latest Paintings of Yang Qian, Visual Art Publishing House, Beijing, 2006, color illustrated, pp. 80-81
Hyper Design- 6th Shanghai Biennale 2006, Shanghai Book & Painting Publishing House, Shanghai, 2006, color illustrated, p. 453
Redicovering Contemporary Reality, Soka Art Center, Taipei, 2006, plate 13
Catalogue Note:
"Extramarital Affair" by Yang Qian was created with Yang's unique style of "movable painting". It tells a tale concerning the prevailing relationship in contemporary China in which a man is alternating between his wife and his lover. The mechanical device moves the painting of the male from right to left, left to right regularly and repeatedly between paintings of the wife and the lover. The male picture will alternately come side by side and overlap with each the female figures. This work, by revealing and covering, symbolizes that in a male dominated society the relationship between man and woman seems full of changes, yet the undermining pattern is in fact one way. This is a very inspiring piece of artistic work.
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