Cui Guotai, The Wreckage of the Train, Acrylic on canvas, 180 x 290 cm

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Cui Guotai

´The Great Remains´

Vernissage: 10.07.2005, 3 p.m.

Date: 10.07 - 11.09-2005

Cui Cuotai, born in Shenyang, was concentrated in the beginning of his career on his inner emotional world and the esthetics of the nature of his homeland, the northeast of China. After an abstract period and four years later he approached the topics of his present-day works.

His focus turned to the huge and waste heavy industrial region, also in the northeast of China. The murky and weird industrial ruins, such as factories, chimneys, blast furnaces, locomotives, railways, ferroconcrete constructions, stand tall and upright in Guotai`s paintings. Here he uses the realistic images to bear witness to the passing of the heavy industrial era in China.

The artist doesn´t reflect in his paintings the place of the exhibition WHITE SPACE BEIJING. But yet his paintings gain in the surrounding of this industrial 'dinosaur', in which the 798 / Dashanzi Art District is situated, an additional meaning. Which feelings are brought up, which 'phantastic spark' is initiated.