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The Knoxville Museum of Art Presents Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments |
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Xiaoze Xie, January-April 2004, M.N., 2004, oil on canvas, 44 x 80 inches, private collection, Chicago.
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KNOXVILLE, TN.- Amplified Moments is the first major US exhibition to survey the work of Xiaoze Xie (pronounced shout-zah shee-ay), an important Chinese contemporary artist. More than 30 works document his achievements in painting, drawing, photography, installation, and video, and represent his use of books and newspapers to symbolize the fragile nature of history and memory.
Although Xie intended to pursue a career in architecture, the violent military crackdown on student protesters at Beijings Tiananmen Square in 1989 compelled him to shift his energies. He left the Peoples Republic of China three years later after completing his training as a painter, and began using symbolic imagery derived from newspapers, decaying books, museum libraries, and media images of current events. For Xie, stacks of printed pages represent not only cultural memory and the passage of time, but the ways in which history is interpreted and recorded according to various belief systems and political agendas.
Xies labor-intensive paintings consist of successive layers of pigment applied over several weeks. Working largely from photographs, the artist paints in a manner that is influenced by his camera. Some imagery appears cropped, blurred, and hazy, as if viewed through a photographic lens or perhaps through the filter of memory. The resulting compositions reach near-photographic precision without losing the evidence of the artists masterful brushwork.
Xie is the Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Professor in Art at Stanford University. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and several distinguished private collections.
Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments is organized by Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
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