Guo Donglai

1985 Born in Beijing

2008 Graduated from the stage Design Department of the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts with a bachelor´s degree, China

2012 Graduated from the stage Design Department of the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts with a master´s degree, China

2015 Graduated from the Department of Visual Arts of Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, in Italy with a master’s degree

Currently works and lives in Beijingand Bologna

SOLO EXHIBITION

2015

En un clin d’œil - Guo Donglai Solo Exhibition, Galerie Liusa Wang, Paris, France

GROUP EXHIBITION

2016

2016 Art Nova 100, Beijing, China

Wang Shikuo Award - TAM Exhibition of Nominated Chinese Contemporary Young Artists, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2015

Caissa Rising Arting - Annual Nomination Exhibition for Students of Contemporary Art Academies, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

Poly Stellardemia Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing, China

Exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Notte Bianca di Bologna, Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Guo Donglai did not limit himself within original or artificial or even industrial status of materials, but reconstructed new lingual and significant connections among different materials – discover unprecedented meaning during the process of changing material status and re-organization. Precisely speaking, he created a magical match with natural materials and industrial materials; they look like being “apart”, while actually they are “generating new product”. In this way, he discarded reification, and exposed the discussion and fusion of materials’ “original status” and “artificial status”. The artworks of Guo Donglai presented a rather remarkable art level; they not only dissolved the trace of “human” and “me”, but reactivate isolated objects through encounter of materials. To sum up, the artist blurred out the boarder between handcraft and nature, and showed an unprecedented existence and concept through reassembling materials. -Huang Du（Curator, Art critic）