Jiao Xingtao
Chengdu, China, 1970

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'I believe that in Jiao Xingtao's sculptures, he does not merely think of the environmental stresses and issues resulting from all the castaway objects. Instead, he focuses upon the issue from a philosophical and aesthetical point of view. By emphasizing, enlarging, and artistically recreating the castaway objects, he not only explores humanity, desire and packaged desire but also inspires our imagination to penetrate the cover of the packaging and to go beyond the surface. He tries to reconstruct the mutual relationship between man and object, to re-establish the subjectivity of humans, and to form a special dialogue between us and our castaway objects.' Sun Zhenhua, art critic and president Shenshen Sculpture Academy, 2007

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CV
Opleiding
Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts,
Chongqing (MFA, 1996)

Solotentoonstelling
2007 Matter Morphosis by Jiao Xingtao,
Art Seasons, Peking

Groepstentoonstellingen (selectie)
2007 Set From Southwest, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
2007 Image Nation, works by a new generation of Chinese artists, Contrast Gallery, Shanghai
2006 First Annual China Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing World Art Museum, Peking
2006 Humanity Landscape: Exhibition of Contemporary Huizhou Sculpture, Guangdong
2006 China Contemporary Experimental Bust Sculpture Exhibition, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin
2006 Feng Shui - Jiujiantong Art Exhibition, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
2005 Scenery, Century and Heaven, Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu
2005 Dress Up in Art, Today Art Gallery, Beijing
2005 In Operation, Shenzhen Sculpture Academy, Shenzhen
2005 Yellow Sky Flat Earth, Beijing World Art Museum, Beijing
2005 100 Years of Sculpture, Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall, Shanghai
2004 Oita International Sculpture Exhibition, Oita, Japan
2004 China • Imagine, China Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Parijs
2004 10th National Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2004 Zhua Zhuang Ding – Contemporary Art from Chongqing, Art Seasons, Beijing
2004 Bi Ci, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Toulouse, Frankrijk
2003 First Beijing International Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
2002 Xi Bufeng, China Sculpture Exhibition Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing
2002 Unfathomable Art, Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing
2001 Chongqing Chili’s, School of Arts and Design, University of Kassel, Kassel, Kassel
2000 The 2nd China Youth Sculpture, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China