"Cloud Sculpture" is an academic platform under the Beijing Sui Jianguo Art Foundation, whose concept is based on physical experience and sculpture, focusing on the occurrence and discussion of artists, exhibitions and events related to sculpture, installation, performance, events and other related from three-dimensional space, and building new art oriented to history and future, such as time, space, nature, society, material and technology.
Hou Zichao and Yuan Keru participated in the group exhibition "Fractured Generation: Electronic Color, Networking, Fashion Consumption, Science Fiction Prose and Global Identity of the Post-90s ". The emergence of the "broken generation" marks a major turning point in Chinese contemporary art. This turn was more radical than previous art movements, and as a result caused widespread confusion.
Working with Nature
Swirls of pink and red. Green and yellow voids. Fragments of wood, fracturing and splintering in front of our eyes. These are the works of self-taught sculptor Daniel Fuchs. Represented by Pashmin Art Consortia, he creates highly complicated and complex works from spruce wood
â transforming plain panels into detailed filigree reliefs. The artist speaks to
Aesthetica about the process, whilst explaining how he came to be inspired by natural materials.
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A: What inspired you to become an artist?
DF: I grew up with a lot of art around me at an early age. My grandmother had worked in the Satiricum in Greiz, where the largest collection of copper engravings in the former GDR was kept. This also gave me access to many objects, sculptures and caricatures. I stayed there a lot and developed my painting skills there.