JAKUP FERRI – TINTIRINTI

Posted on 2021-11-29

Jip designed the carpets in the digital world of Animal Crossing, a children’s game that allows you to add blocks with the click of a mouse, and create colourful shirts or caps for the characters.

Made of up squares that look like pixels, the carpets are composed of brightly coloured geometric shapes and share the same seeming simplicity as Jakup Ferri’s earlier figurative works: scenes of everyday life poetically captured in pocket-sized drawings.

In his first video works, developed during a residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Jakup Ferri offered a subtle, endearing and witty self-reflection on the isolation of the non-Western artist trying to hold his own in the Western art world. Ferri is particularly drawn to folk art and traditional artisanal techniques. After returning to his hometown of Prisina in Kosovo, Ferri embarked on collaborations with embroiderers and carpet weavers from Kosovo, villages in Albania, Suriname and Burkina Faso. Using traditional skills and methods, they created productions inspired by his drawings. This collaborative process also supported workshops and traditional crafts whose survival is threatened by capitalist production systems.

Opposite – Installation views

Exhibition runs through to December 11th, 2021

Andriesse ~ Eyck Gallery
Leliegracht 47
1016 GT Amsterdam
The Netherlands

andriesse-eyck.com

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SHI YONG – ONE MAN’S ART HISTORY

Posted on 2021-11-29

Shi Yong was born in Shanghai in 1963. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Shanghai Light Industrial School. He now resides and works in Shanghai. Shi Yong is a representative figure of contemporary Chinese artists who first started working with installation and video media. Since 1993, his works have been widely exhibited both in China and abroad. His earliest artistic practices focused on revealing the subtlety of our reality and the inherent tension of the “system”. Since the end of 1990s, Shi began focusing on the idea of Shanghai’s transformations under the Chinese economic reform, which contributed to a discussion of globalization and consumerism. Since 2006, with the work “Sorry, There will be no Documenta in 2007”, he turned his attention to the art world itself, pondering how to provide a more rational perspective through his creative works. Shi Yong’s 2015 solo exhibition “Let All Potential Be Internally Resolved Using Beautiful Form” continues his artistic practice, disclosing his intention to expand the reflection and practice of “control” under the seemingly “abstract” future.

Opposite – We Don’t Want to Stop, 2006

Exhibition runs through to January 9th, 2022

ShanghART
West Bund, Bldg.10, 2555 Longteng Avenue
Xuhui District
200232 Shanghai

www.shanghartgallery.com

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