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        NORTHERNMOST COUNTRY

        2015-12-28 11:05:23
        漢語世界 2015年1期

        NORTHERNMOST COUNTRY

        The Last Supper—Like! 2014

        Is Qu Guangci (瞿廣慈) an artist or a businessman? If you search for the artist online, the controversial topics of his role and integrity appear in almost all interviews. An artist whose main creative medium is sculpture, Qu owns a company with his wife called“X+Q” (稀奇), selling reproductions of his sculptures, bags, jewelry, furniture, and other products that stem from the couples’ works. In his recent solo exhibition “Northernmost Country” (終北國(guó)) at Today Art Museum, Qu embraces his two seemingly opposite identities and blurs the distinction between art and commodity using a story from ancient China to comment on contemporary Chinese society.

        Northernmost Country is a fi ctitious, remote land mentioned in the Taoist book Liezi (《列子》) in a chapter called “The Questions of Tang” (《 湯問 》). The country is a utopia where food and drink are abundant, all people are equal, there is no manual labor, and no illnesses. Its residents eat, drink, play, sing, copulate, and experience only happiness—with no knowledge of aging, sadness, or pain. Qu’s famous “l(fā)ittle fat fi gures”, the trademark antagonists in his other works, depict the residents of that faraway utopia as caricatures of the modern Middle Kingdom.

        Endless Tower—Great Men (detail), 2014

        With plain-white, stark, monotonous expressions and body shapes, the chubby fi gures freeze in motion, lit by white studio lights in the vast exhibition space. Their identical features allow ambiguity in the interpretation of their character. Childish, inauthentic, simplistic, the crowd mentality; by keeping the allegory obscure, Qu leaves the question open: What is your Northernmost Country?

        In “The Last Supper—Like!”, the center fi gure sits with arms and legs crossed, unmoved by the praise, while men face toward a man in the middle, giving him the thumbs up. In “Endless Tower—Great Men”, the chubby men perform acrobatic stunts forming a totem pole, where each is stacked on another, expressionless and unresponsive to the twisted state they are in and from the oppression from above. The lack of individuality and the pervasiveness of collective thinking and behavior are meant to resonate with the collective memories of modern Chinese history, but Qu deliberately denies the depiction of a defi nite conclusion or interpretation.

        In great contrast to the monotony/purity of the white exhibition space, the adjacent room overfl ows with exuberance, color, and consumerism. As one of the most commercially successful artists today, Qu exhibits the most well-received products from X+Q in his Burtonesque room: cherubic “Rainbow Angels”; sweet girls with bunny ears in “I Have Seen Happiness”; and the “l(fā)ittle fat fi gures” as communist idealists. Projected onto a wall in a dark room, the video “Qu Guangci and His Friends” loops as the introduction to this solo exhibition, where 37 celebrities and industry heavyweights explain their versions of the Northernmost Country.

        The exhibition isn’t so much about Qu’s utopia as the concept of utopia itself—maybe even its futility, and viewers play the main part. His little fat fi gurines call out for classifi cation, and the empty, barren white space of the exhibition breeds yet more ambiguity. Perhaps that’s the secret of the controversy surrounding Qu—he lets the viewers see what they want. – WEIJING ZHU (祝偉婧)

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