2021. Foam blocks, stone paint. 32×33×83cm.
2021. Foam blocks, stone paint. 46×26×125cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 65×115×230cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 60×70×200cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 55×80×120cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 50×60×115cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 50×60×130cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 50×70×158cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 25×120×140cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 60×65×133cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 30×35×200cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 30×40×138cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 63×32×148cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 30×90×100cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 42×58×312cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 150×95×260cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 102×62×123cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 102×47×122cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 35×30×108cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 30×36×150cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 30×35×153cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 60×60×133cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 35×35×190cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint. 22×30×145cm.
2020. Foam blocks, stone paint 50×60×118cm.
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
2021.3.27-2021.5.5
Aspartime
Aspartime is a collaborative artist duo made up of Qu Xiao and Liu Fengya since 2012. Their previous projects include Weibo Update Program, Ké, The Rabbit Hole Program, Outsider Program, Taobao Program and Brancusi·T’s Model Shop. ZigZag is Aspartime’s 2020 art design project, which includes design products, furniture and sculpture. Their art approach is to carve industrially produced foam with heating wire. While the body gets into the space of foam, sculptures are achieved in consequence. The process of carving involves controlling and crossing of time and space, which produces both intentional and unconscious, random and deliberate textures and forms that drift between figurative and abstract with the various visual experiences. Their sculptures may remind you of matters in the natural world: stalactite, sand beach, weathered rocks and wood grain; they might also be the solid-state of sound waves, radio waves and lightwaves; some of them even resemble industrialized forms of order brought by machines like 3D printer. The abstract and the figurative coexist in the course of selection and recombination.
With the readiness to disenchant the audience with the mystery of art as usual, Aspartime disclosed frankly the material and tool for their sculptures: Styrofoam and electric heating wire. Aspartime’s approach to sculpture, a medium of art with a profound history, may seem too straightforward and plain, but they happen to be good at discovering the unusualness of something usual, the unsimplicity of something simple. If Styrofoam is “the unbearable lightness of being”, electric heating wire could make “all that is solid melt into air”.
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2017 Brancusi·T’s Model Shop, Ying Space, Beijing
2015 Ké, Ying Space, Beijing
2014 Just what is it that makes today’s life so different, so appealing? Ying Space, Beijing
Group Exhibitions
2017 I Do (Not) Want To Be Part Of Your Celebration, Qiao Space, Shanghai
2015 πππ, I: Project Space, Beijing
China 8, Museum Folkwang, Germany
2014 Softcore, Intelligentsia, Beijing
2012 Get It Louder, LD Design Center, Beijing
Playground, re-C Art Space, Chengdu
Make up, V Art Center, Shanghai
Nowhere to live, Star Gallery, Beijing
Projects
2014 The Rabbit Hole Program
2014 Outsider Program
2013 Artistic Talent Development Program
2013 Taobao Program
2012 Weibo Update Program
Aspartime as a Statement
Parallel Universe – Parafacts and Parafictions
2021.11.10-2022.1.9
Shanghai
JINGART 2021 | Hive Center for Contemporary Art | Booth: A11
2021.6.10-2021.6.13
Beijing
