The Wave of Sounds
Cian-Yu Bai

2023
Acrylic on linen
160 × 200cm

Pony
Aoi Tokunaga

2023
Oil and acrylic on canvas
100 × 80.3cm

旋律
Du Jingze

2023
Oil on canvas
120 × 100cm

Loki
Du Jingze

2023
Oil on canvas
80 × 70cm

Paradise
Fan Jing

2023
Oil on canvas
70 × 50 cm

Fool’s game
Fan Jing

2023
Oil on canvas
110 × 180 cm

Sedimentary Cycle
Ji Xin

2023
Oil on canvas
120 × 90cm

Big face 1
Jasper Hagenaar

2023
Acrylic on linen
150 × 120cm

Face sculpture 3
Jasper Hagenaar

2023
Acrylic on linen
40 × 32cm

La Mancha
Ho Jae Kim

2023
Oil, inkjet transfer, enamel, and paper on canvas
188 × 137cm

Object262
Xian Kim

2023
Oil and acrylic on canvas
162 × 112cm

Fronterizas
Christian Ruiz Berman

2023
Acrylic and stucco on panel
81 × 147 × 10cm

Pisces
Yang Semine

2023
Acrylic on canvas
200 × 220 cm

Everywhere in-between
Luke Agada

卢克·阿加达/
介于两者间的每一寸/
2023
布面油画/ Oil on canvas
137 × 122cm

Hibernation
Lu Yu

2023
Oil on canvas
180 × 180cm

Even Night is not Night Enough
Martyn Cross

2023
Oil on flax linen
127.2 × 182.8 × 2.3cm

The Beach
Matthew Hansel

马修·汉塞尔/
沙滩/
2023
布面油画和丙烯酸颜料/ Oil and flashe paint on canvas
81.3 × 101.6cm

Farewell Waltz #3
Nimyu

2023
Oil on linen
120 × 200cm

Bone and Fruit, Unclear waves-Hermaphrodite
Nimyu

2023
Oil on linen
122 × 91cm

Gardening
Sainer

2023
Acrylic on canvas
160 × 180cm

Dinamiche di coppia
Stefano Perrone

2023
Oil on canvas
121 × 101 cm

silvabyclor alclovax
Ivan Seal

2023
Oil on canvas
60 × 55cm

ketabinol
Ivan Seal

2023
Oil on canvas
60 × 55cm

protonuma dexlangtim vampriene alogxacin
Ivan Seal

2023
Oil on canvas
190 × 180cm

benefifoxin helmapin
Ivan Seal

2023
Oil on canvas
60 × 55cm

Villa
Tat Ito

2023
Acrylic gouache, gold leaf on paper mounted on panel
33.5 × 24.2 × 3.4cm

Performing reality
Tat Ito

2023
Acrylic gouache, gold leaf on paper mounted on panel
33.5 × 24.2 × 3.4cm

UEUP
Tat Ito

2023
Acrylic gouache, gold leaf on paper mounted on panel
33.5 × 24.2 × 3.4cm

A game at dusk
Toby Cato

2023
Acrylic and paper on canvas
100cm × 120cm

The Medusa Prequel
Tan Yongqing

2023
Oil on canvas
200 × 200cm

La petite répétition
Dennis Scholl

2022
Oil on wood
46 × 35cm

Putain, je suis désolé
Dennis Scholl

2022
Oil on wood
46 × 35cm

Green Light
Yang Semine

2022
Acrylic on canvas
190 × 140 cm

Static Ecstatic
Lindsay Burke

2022
Acrylic on canvas
57.2 × 54 cm

Scylla
Mie Yim

2022
Oil on linen
152.40 × 121.92cm

Stilleven zonder zwarte pensen – Still life without black pudding
Joke Derycke

2022 – 2023
Mixed media (oilpaint, acrylics, charcoal, graphite, pastel) on canvas
110 × 150cm

Birthday Series #27
Bridget Mullen

2021
Flashe on linen
30 × 23cm

Stitchfix
Lindsay Burke

2021
Acrylic and dry media on canvas
76.2 × 55.9 cm

4 Ads in the Subway
Stipan Tadić

2021
Oil on canvas
50 × 40cm

Invasione di campo
Stefano Perrone

2020
Oil on canvas
152 × 200cm

Konijn met pruimen- Rabbit with prunes
Joke Derycke

2018 – 2022
Mixed media (oilpaint, acrylics, charcoal, graphite, pastel) on canvas
140 × 190cm

Curator:
Saša Bogojev

Artists:
Cian-Yu Bai, Bridget Mullen, Dennis Scholl, Aoi Tokunaga, Du Jingze, Fan Jing, Ji Xin, Jasper Hagenaar, Ho Jae Kim, Xian Kim, Christian Ruiz Berman, Yang Semine, Lindsay Burke, Luke Agada, Lu Yu, Martyn Cross, Matthew Hansel, Mie Yim, Nimyu, Joke Derycke, Sainer, Stefano Perrone, Stipan Tadic, Tan Yongqing, Toby Cato, Hippolyte Hentgen, Tat Ito, Ivan Seal

 

Hive Center for Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the opening of Polyreality on 16 Sept. 2023 at Hive Beijing’s main Hall. Featuring works by 28 artists worldwide, the show is curated by independent writer and curator Saša Bogojev and will be on view till 24 Oct. 2023.Since ancient times, humanity had a tendency to explain the world through the concept of duality. The existence of interconnected opposites, the good and the evil, was an easy way to understand and make sense of things and events around us. But being wired to see things in such binary terms, makes it difficult to comprehend the possible existence of many different, sometimes contradictory directions happening at once. A multitude of dualities forming a multitude of realities – a Polyireality.

This concept of polyreality doesn’t exclude the undisputable existence of duality. A painting itself is at its core built from the two opposites – fluids mixed together with powdered stones form pigments which are then used to create whole new worlds. The painterly practice can also be divided into the logical design of the composition and the emotive, ritualistic application of the paint, to some extent honoring the mind-body dualism theory, a metaphysical stance that mind and body are two distinct substances. On another hand, painters utilized duality dynamics throughout centuries to create compelling works of art speaking of two forces existing on opposite ends of the spectrum. Such polarities as light and dark, hot and cold, love and hate, or happy and sad condition our everyday thinking but can also be used to create a sense of tension within a work of art. Contrasted against each other, this dichotomy is bound to suggest a narrative, an eternal cosmic battle on which entire religions, beliefs, and philosophical concepts are based.

And although historically established and approved, such concepts almost exclusively propose the existence of duality within the one, same actuality. Interested in re-wiring our binary mental setup, Polyreality is looking at extending such a notion to a multitude of realities with “thinking outside of the dualistic box”. By presenting varied examples of mixing and matching different factualities to form new ones, these works are keeping an open door for new approaches, harnessing the stimuli, and welcoming potential. Whether interrupting the traditional aesthetics with contemporary imagery, placing illustrative segments as essential parts of painterly passages, putting inanimate objects in dialogue with human figures, transforming expressively abstract sections into a representational image, or merging a whole jumble of diverse elements into a mind-bending new scene, these artists are proposing visual metaphors through which to further understand the complexity and multidimensionality of our everyday Polyreality.

 

 

ABOUT THE CURATOR:

Saša Bogojev is an independent writer and curator. Born in Croatia and based in The Netherlands he has worked for many years as European correspondent at Juxtapoz magazine, contributed to various international publications and media outlets, collaborated with artists on monographs/books/catalogs, curated a number of gallery shows worldwide (including the ongoing series of Universes exhibitions), and is currently curating the newly established Contemporary Art Now art fair in Ibiza (CAN, Ibiza).

Since 2016 Bogojev started curating and co-curating gallery exhibitions worldwide, including To Bodily Go…, Superzoom, Miami (2022); Viscereal, Althuis-Hofland, Amsterdam (2022); Stay Tuned, WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong (2021), 8th Ply, The Garage, Amsterdam (2020); Melancholympics, The Wunderwall, Antwerp, Belgium (2020); ME, High Line Nine, New York (2020); New Classics, Galerie C.O.A., Montreal, Canada (2019); Universes, Tales Of Arte, Imola, Italy (2018); High on Stress – Sean Norvel, Amala Gallery, Tokyo (2017); Happier Together – Mike Lee, Amala Gallery, Tokyo (2017) among many others.

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