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THE DRAWING HAND
October 15th, 2009 – November 12th, 2009

With : Botto e Bruno (Italy), Ping Chang (China), Gosia Galas (Poland), Christian Gonzenbach (Switzerland), Ayaz Jokhio (Pakistan), JonOne (France + USA), Kosta Kulundzic (Serbia), Blek Le Rat (France), P. Nicolas Ledoux (France), Guillaume Linard (France), Laurina Paperina (Italy), Quick (USA), Mathias Schauwecker (Switzerland), Angela Su (Hong Kong), Icon Tada (Japan), Françoise Pétrovitch (France), Ariadhitya Pramuhendra (Indonesia), Miss Van (Spain), Jeanne Verdoux (USA), Yuan Yuan (China), and many others…
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And at 1918 artspace
EXHIBITION Body in circumstance

ARTIST Judith STURM and LUE Yi
CURATOR ZHAO Yonggang
OPENING 2009.10.10 / 6-9pm
EXHIBITION DATE 10.10 – 11.1
LOCATION 1918 ArtSPACE
EXPANDING

身体－境遇 ／ BODY IN CIRCUMSTANCE

艺术家 Artists : Judith STURM & LUE Yi

展览地址 Address：上海莫干山路20号1918艺术空间

n.20 Moganshan road, Shanghai – China

展览时间 Exhibition dates：2009.10.9 – 11.1
Judith Sturm (Born in Saar Louis，Germany) and LUE Yi (German, Born in Hangzhou, China) were both master students of Professor Bodo Baumgarten and later became good friends in person.
We are exhibiting two series of oil paintings on canvas from Judith and Yi sharing a common subject matter: people in summer clothes. As a female painter, Judith focuses on zooming in female body parts on big canvases, revealing fine-textured skin and colorful clothes of women in swimming suits while Yi captures an actual scene of a summer beach, realistically showing a place of cultural interest of a certain season and environment.
Judith chooses model-like female body parts with different postures and often uses pink, red, black and grey to develop the figures. The combination of striped or polka dots clothes, high heels and fashionable handbags symbolically suggest the female sexual passion and a typical gender-role behavior. Lue Yi’s characters are mostly placed on the beach, before the different colored blue sky are the old and young, male and female, the choppy and thin, naked or half naked people.. Yi’s works don’t have any suggestions of lust; instead they appear like some random scene in life that you happen to pass by, peaceful and natural.
There’s certain similarity in Judith and Yi’s style of painting. Judith’s styled verism and Yi’s photo realism with features of impressionism form a contrast of insight and outlook on presenting the characters. Judith’s sexual passion focuses on intriguing details instead of the individual while Lue Yi discusses the beauty and short duration of human body from the opposite aspect using scene editing. Such a contrast is questioning us: What are we demanding from our body (and life)? How do we look at the contrast of our own body right and reality of its temporality?
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