Miao Xiaochun

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MIAO XIAOCHUN: H2O - A STUDY OF ART HISTORY

Opening: June 24th, 2007, 3 pm

Exhibition: June 26th, 2007 - September 16th, 2007

Where is life from and where it will go? H2O-A Study of Art History , another series of landmark works by Miao Xiaochun, which took him a whole year to accomplish following his Last Judgment in Cyberspace, reflect Miao's constant meditation about this question in a personal and artistic way.

"I really don't know where I was from or where I will go, but I know many substances go into and out of my body every day, among which is water- H2O. Before entering my body, it has gone through numerous living things: plants, animals, and human beings; and it will again go through numerous plants, animals and human beings after being released from my body. I am just one of the containers holding it temporarily, or one of the points it flows by. Water has been recycling through oceans, the sky, and the land. The process has begun ever since remote ages, continues to the present, and will continue into future, never stopping, repeating forever in an endless way. Does it carry and deliver certain information about the source and destination of life? All forms of life and water vitally interrelate with each other? Do they thus show compassion and concern for each other? Is constantly changing life, which is delicate and subtle like water, recycling endlessly as water does? Will vanished life condense again at some other place and return to earth just like evaporated water drops condensing into rain, snow, or frost?" (About "H2O-A Study of Art History", Statement by Miao Xiaochun).

Compared with the history of all forms of life, the history of art is too short to be worth mentioning; but compared with individual life, the history of art is fairly long. Selecting from the long as well as short history of art ten works involving water which touch him to the heart, Miao Xiaochun tries to depict through latest digital technology the grand inter-linkage of life played by water. Miao has replaced the thousands of characters in these works with a three dimensional model of his own image created with computer, a kind of "metabolism"-just like water flowing into his body. In this way, Miao has "flowed" into different works of other times and has "generated" entirely new art works which have blood and flesh relations with the original ones.