Guan Yinfu

Guan Yinfu was born in Qiqiha’er, Heilongjiang province, China in 1975. He graduated from The Central Academy of Drama with a Bachelor Degree in Stage Design.

In Guan Yinfu’s works, the pigment turns from a color to an object which is composed of color, volume, and weight. In his works, colors have volume and weight, and the contact, overlap, and permeation of different color blocks bring slight changes to them. He minimizes the works’ nature as paintings, the artist’s body and spirit are no longer in charge; rather, the artist takes a step back and acts as a follower.

Guan Yinfu does not design the shape of the color blocks on his works. Instead, he lets pigments naturally flow and congeal. However, he did tilt the wood boxes a little bit, so as to create slight disturbance to the shape of the color blocks when the pigments congeal naturally. Also, the combination of wooden crates and pure pigments imbues the works with casualness, and blurs the boundary between “works of art” and “objects”.

Guan Yinfu also works with stainless steel. With the grinding marks on the stainless steel, the artist creates an optical illusion which disturbs people’s conception of space, and therefore makes the representation of the works complicated, multi-layered, and debatable.

Guan Yinfu was born in Qiqiha’er, Heilongjiang province, China in 1975. He graduated from The Central Academy of Drama with a Bachelor Degree in Stage Design.

In Guan Yinfu’s works, the pigment turns from a color to an object which is composed of color, volume, and weight. In his works, colors have volume and weight, and the contact, overlap, and permeation of different color blocks bring slight changes to them. He minimizes the works’ nature as paintings, the artist’s body and spirit are no longer in charge; rather, the artist takes a step back and acts as a follower.

Guan Yinfu does not design the shape of the color blocks on his works. Instead, he lets pigments naturally flow and congeal. However, he did tilt the wood boxes a little bit, so as to create slight disturbance to the shape of the color blocks when the pigments congeal naturally. Also, the combination of wooden crates and pure pigments imbues the works with casualness, and blurs the boundary between “works of art” and “objects”.

Guan Yinfu also works with stainless steel. With the grinding marks on the stainless steel, the artist creates an optical illusion which disturbs people’s conception of space, and therefore makes the representation of the works complicated, multi-layered, and debatable.

Education

2002
Graduated from The Central Academy of Drama, Theatre Arts department, Stage Design major.

Solo Exhibition

2013
Guan Yinfu ≥ Objecthood, Jing Gallery, Beijing, China.

Group Exhibition

2017
Vivivid, Fingerprint Gallery，Beijing，China.

2016
The Decameron BMCA Documenting Art, China.
Dingyun Art Salon Collection Exhibition, Wuhan, China.

2015
Concealed Power Yang Art Museum, Beijing, China.

2014
Soft Abstraction as Constellation, UCCA, China.
The Being of Non Being Linda Gallery, Beijing, China.

2013
Heiqiao Night Away Beijing, China.
Internai/External: The Form and Vision of Concept Tong Gallery, Beijing, China.
Simulacrum and Image Da xiang Art space, Taiwan, China.

2012
Against Space –Eight Kinds of Attitude and Situation About Painting, Beijing. China。
Art Taipei Yang Gallery, Taiwan, China.
Painting Lesson-Negative And Positive Style Yang Gallery, Beijing, China.

2011
Paint Beyond The Frame Feizi Gallery, Shanghai, China.

2010
Visual Flux –Easel Painting Research Exhibition 1 – Space and Energy Qinghe Current Art Center, Nanjing, China.

2009
Young Artists Promotional Exhibition “Re-experimentation: a reaffirmation of enlightenment and will”, Beijing 798 Art Festival, China.
First Chongqing Biennale for the Young Artists. Chongqing, China.
Obstruction, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China.

Fairs

2017
CIGE, Fingerprint Gallery, Beijing, China

2015
ART SOUTHAMPTON Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
ART BASEL Hong Kong, UCCA
ART CENTRAL Ethan Cohen Fine Arts.
ART BEIJING Hongding Gallery, Beijing, China.

2012
ART TAIPEI Yang Gallery, Beijing, China.

Museum & Foundation Collection

2017
Blue Mountain Contemporary Art (BMCA), 尧山基金会, Hong Kong
STANLEY HO Fine Arts Foundation, 何鸿燊基金会，Macau
HAHA Museum, 哈哈美术馆，Beijing, China

2012
Wuhan Art Museum, 武汉美术馆，Wuhan, China

2010
Qinghe Art Museum, 南京清河美术馆，Nanjing, China

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