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'Rising star' draws inspiration from memories (2)

By Wang Jie (Shanghai Daily)

08:51, January 25, 2013

Black room

Visitors first enter a black room containing realistic paintings that are supposed to raise the question, "Besides producing hallucinations, what is the importance of paintings nowadays?"

Next, the blue room contains doodles and scribbles made by the artist as a boy. They are supposed to express "preconsciousness" of paintings, rather than demonstrate the artist's aptitude at a young age.

The yellow room, the "subconscious," contains paintings that are neither doodles nor deliberately created works. They appear to be disorganized images, which can only be rearranged and made sense of by personal experience and memory.

Born in 1977 in Harbin in China's northeastern Heilongjiang Province, Qiu graduated from the oil painting department of the National Central Academy of Fine Arts.

"The young man was stirred by a passion for music that made art seems prosaic by comparison. He even entertained the idea of becoming a rock star: an arousal of enthusiasm and creation ambition with which the metier of artist could not compete," says exhibition curator Karen Smith.

"The creating of these paintings was a process of elimination and emotional release that allowed him to confirm his love of music, but importantly that assisted him in finding a rationale to concentrate on art."

In returning to his youth for inspiration, Qiu realized that his memories and their images evoke compelling issues of modern life: stress, competition in the job market, financial concerns, divorce, neglect and breakdown of the family.

Date: Through March 7, 10am-5pm

Venue: Minsheng Art Museum, Bldg F, 570 Huaihai Road W.

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