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Lot Essay
Qiu Zhijie and the artists in the Post-sense sensibility group (which included Sun Yuan, Peng Yu, Liu Wei, Zhang Hui, Zhu Yu, Shi Qing, and Wang Wei, etc.) were involved in a reaction to the Young British Artists (YBAs) of the 1990s and their emphasis was solely on felt reactions rather than thought. In a ten-year period beginning in about 1999, they began implementing a kind of supra-rational methodology, one "steeped in bafflement, bewilderment, intoxication, and regret, and the refusal to engage in judgment. It involves the experience of an object, and discovery the self from inside the object. 'Post-sense sensibility' opposes sensibility, because sensibility has exhausted analysis, categorization, reasoning, and hypothesizing. It is rational knowledge that is turned once again into feelings and materials" (Qiu Zhijie, Post-sense Sensibility). During the production of Rebellious Painter (Lot 5), Qiu turned and inverted the painting to let colours flow and drip in different directions according to the pull of gravity. In the midst of his hand-painted camouflage background, sleeves of clothing made out of camouflage fabric suddenly pop up: the sense of form evoked by the dripping colour is reminiscent of the German Neo-Expressionist artist George Baselitz, and the camouflage image becomes an environment generated through painting, with the added layer of a dimension of reality. During the 2006-07 period, Qiu Zhijie completed another set of paintings and installation works employing camouflage, called The Thunderstorm is Coming . They received showings through New York's Performa Biennial and Japan's Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, and metaphorically suggested the tensions created in the outside world by the rise of China as a great power.
Born in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, China. Qiu Zhijie studied Printmaking at The National Academy of Fine Art and received his BFA in 1992. Qiu's major exhibitions include: Ataraxic of Zhuang Zi - A Suicidology of the Nanjing Yangzi River Bridge, Solo Exhibition, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China, (2008); The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, (2007); 2nd Yokohama Triennale, Japan, (2005); 25th Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil, (2002) and Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of Twentieth Century, The Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, USA, (1999). He currently lives in Beijing as a full time artist, as well as an art critic and curator.
Born in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, China. Qiu Zhijie studied Printmaking at The National Academy of Fine Art and received his BFA in 1992. Qiu's major exhibitions include: Ataraxic of Zhuang Zi - A Suicidology of the Nanjing Yangzi River Bridge, Solo Exhibition, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China, (2008); The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, (2007); 2nd Yokohama Triennale, Japan, (2005); 25th Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil, (2002) and Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of Twentieth Century, The Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, USA, (1999). He currently lives in Beijing as a full time artist, as well as an art critic and curator.