曹斐 Cao Fei

Cao Fei: Apocalypse Tomorrow, Vitamin Creative Space at Art Basel 42
2011.06.15 - 2011.06.19

Cao Fei: Apocalypse Tomorrow (2011)

Our avatar is styled after a meditating monk, his heart at ease, his board light, seemingly in mid-flight; he is constantly overcoming every sort of obstacle on the water, but never reaching anything resembling a final destination. This perhaps is the essence of games. Similar to certain phenomena in life, throughout constant elevation of the soul through transmigration, we complete a journey of self-cultivation.

Booth: H8

Venue: Halls 1 and 2 of Messe Basel, Messeplatz, 4005 Basel, Switzerland.

Preview&Vernissage: Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 11am until 9pm

General Public: Wednesday, June 15, to Sunday, June 19, 2011, 11 am until 7 pm Daily
Real Virtuality, Museum of the Moving Image, New York
2011.01.15 - 2011.06.12

Cao Fei explores the discrepancies between dream and reality in today’s hyper-capitalist China, exemplifying elements of discontent and disillusionment found in China’s younger generations.

RMB City was launched in late 2008 as a laboratory for experiments in creative arts, architecture, politics, and economics. It has since been augmented by artistic projects made within it, including a series of videos, an opera, and, to mark the culmination of the project, a video game. Acknowledging China’s recent history, RMB City’s architecture references ancient and modern Chinese icons, from the panda to the Beijing National Stadium constructed for the 2008 Olympics. Cao Fei has a Second Life avatar, China Tracy, who acts as a guide, philosopher, and tourist.

RMB City, 2008-11

Second Life software has been adapted to allow Museum visitors to explore RMB City using a 3-D mouse.

Surf RMB City

World premiere

Visitors can surf through a version of RMB City that has been submerged in water.

Customized interface developed by Friedrich Kirschner and Hannah Perner-Wilson

more info:http://www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/2011/01/15/detail/real-virtuality/
Cao Fei, one of the finalists announced on New York Times
2009.10.09

“Cosplayers” (2004), an 8min video by Cao Fei, one of the six artists who are finalists for the 2010 Hugo Boss Prize. Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou/Beijing, and Lombard-Freid Project, New York

“Finalists Announced for 2010 Hugo Boss Prize”

By CAROL VOGEL. Published: October 8, 2009, New York Times

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has chosen the six finalists for its 2010 Hugo Boss Prize. The $100,000 award, given every two years and named for the German men’s wear company that sponsors it, goes to an individual who has made an important contribution to contemporary art.

Unlike many art prizes, this one has no restrictions on age or nationality, so the finalists are often a mix of international figures, and that is true this year. “That there are artists from the Middle East and Asia reflects how we continue to learn more and more about art around the world,” said Nancy Spector, chief curator of the foundation and chairwoman of the six-person jury that will select the winner.

This year’s list, which was announced on Thursday evening, is an eclectic one that leans heavily toward conceptual and performance artists. It includes no painters. These are the finalists:

Cao Fei, 31, a Beijing artist whose work has been shown in many biennials. Ms. Fei explores the rapid evolution of Chinese society and cultural trends in her photographs, videos and new-media work.

Hans-Peter Feldmann, 68, a German artist living in Düsseldorf who appropriates everyday images for his carefully conceived installations. At a show at the International Center of Photography last year, he filled a room with the framed front pages of 100 newspapers — from Paris, Dubai, Sydney, Seoul, New York and elsewhere — printed on Sept. 12, 2001.

Natascha Sadr Haghighian, a conceptual artist in Berlin. (She refuses to give her age.) Her works have included video, performance, computer and sound pieces. A recent one, “Cut,” involved projections of moving razor blades that seemed to be slicing the gallery walls.

Roman Ondak, 43, a Slovakian artist who lives and works in the capital, Bratislava, where he stages performances and installations. His work in his country’s pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale involved an indoor environment that reproduced the greenery, bushes, paths and trees between other exhibition pavilions. Mr. Ondak also created “Measuring the Universe,” at the Museum of Modern Art, an exhibition that closed last month, in which visitors’ heights, first names and the date of the measurement were recorded on the gallery walls.

Walid Raad, 42, a Lebanese conceptual artist who lives and works in Beirut and New York. Last year, in a multimedia project at the International Center of Photography, he depicted the Lebanese civil war of the 1980s in graphic detail, through the voices of people who never existed, using details he invented. He has also created a video purporting to show sunsets supposedly recorded by a Lebanese surveillance-camera operator.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 39, a Thai filmmaker who takes politics and relationships as his subjects. His work was shown at the 2008 Carnegie International, where he won the inaugural Fine Prize for outstanding emerging artist.

The Hugo Boss Prize winner will be announced in the fall of 2010 and will also receive a solo show in 2011 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Hugo Boss Prize -- From Wikipedia:

The Hugo Boss Prize is awarded every other year to an artist (or group of artists) working in any medium, anywhere in the world. The prize is administered by the Guggenheim Museum and sponsored by the Hugo Boss clothing company. It carries with it a cash award of US$100,000 and a tetrahedral trophy. A jury of curators, critics and scholars is responsible for the selection of the artists. They nominate six or seven artists for the short list; several months later, they choose the winner of the prize. In 1996 and 1998, the nominated artists exhibited their work at the now-defunct Guggenheim Soho; since 2000, only the winning artist has shown his or her work.

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