eggs installation

source: hastaladesign

L’artiste chinois Shi Shaoping présente des clichés de lieux désertiques dans lesquels il a installé 3 000 œufs en céramique. D’un poids de 10kg chacun, il réalise ces œuvres seul, et cherche à symboliser la fragilité et la beauté de la naissance.
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source: exibart

Si chiama Shi Shaoping e attualmente è in mostra al Today Art Museum di Pechino. L’artista cinese, però, non è una figura del tutto usuale. Anzi, è forse quello che potrebbe essere definito un nuovo “land artist” del Sol Levante. Già, perché per un anno Shaoping ha trascorso le sue giornate in diverse zone isolatissime della Cina, portando con sé, e installando in situ, qualcosa come 3mila uova di ceramica, del peso di circa 10 chili l’una, per una somma totale che si aggira sulle 40 tonnellate.
The metamorphosis series – the eggs ha coperto la frastagliata costa di Behai, i paesaggi dello Yardang, il Gobi nero, le dune di sabbia di Dunhuang, i pascoli del Gannan. Insieme a un team, l’artista posiziona con cura ogni singolo pezzo, facendo attenzione di adattare la disposizione per la larga scala, misurando anche il tempo e l’altezza della marea, come sulla costa della regione di Beihai, per assicurare che il mare non lavasse via le uova. Un nascita di fragilità e bellezza, e al contempo una nuova vita inesistente, data la composizione delle opere, che mira a riflette sulla distruzione della speranza e la disperazione di un mondo “sterile”. Ma che ha regalato negli ultimi mesi una serie di nuovi paesaggi invisti, che arrivano oggi solo grazie a una serie di documentazioni.
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source: wondershowtw

中國藝術家市陳少平花了超過一年的時間，在位於中國荒涼的環境和沙莫創作了大型裝置藝術，擺放3,000顆的陶瓷雞蛋。在這中國無人居住區域要展開這些雞蛋不平凡的歷程，涵蓋了每一個具戲劇性景觀 每個雞蛋的重量約10公斤，相當於48噸的雕塑成品總和。草原上除了羊和牛外，多出了好多雞蛋，不知道的人會不會以為是恐龍化石 QQ” 每顆蛋都有10公斤重，所以到哪都要卡車載運才能到成千上萬的雞蛋總和有48萬噸重
團隊一次創作需要3000顆雞蛋進入沙漠 團隊成員細心的把雞蛋放到位置上 所有自然景觀的展示結束後最終放置和展覽場是在今日美術館喔！屬於那3000顆蛋的旅程 ~
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source: designboom

chinese artist shi shaoping has spent over one year firing 3,000 solid ceramic eggs for art installations situated throughout the landscapes of china’s most desolate locales. each egg weighs about 10 kilograms, the total sum for the thousands of sculptures equating to 48-tons. for ‘the metamorphosis series – the eggs’, shaoping takes the mass of solid vessels on an extraordinary journey through uninhabited domains in china, covering some of its most dramatic and haunting landscapes: the rugged behai coast, yardang landforms, the black gobi, sand dunes of dunhuang, and the gannan grassland. along with a team, he carefully positions each individual piece, taking extra care in adapting the large-scale arrangement to each geographical location; he had to measure the time and height of the tide on the beihai coast to ensure that his art piece wouldn’t be taken by nature and washed away. in their final stage, these eggs silently lay on the floor of the exhibition hall at today art museum.’the metamorphosis series – the eggs’ symbolizes birth, fragility and beauty, but since the vessels are solid forms, new life is nonexistent and the artwork in turn reflects the destruction of hope and desperation.
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source: artlinkart

Shi Shaoping graduated from Stage Art Department of Shanghai Theatre Academy in 1996. He gained a management position in a song and dance troupe right after his graduation, and his painting career came to a halt for over ten years. As a matter of fact, it was an enviable job which gave him the opportunity to take a look at the world outside while leading the troupe to give performance in different countries. One of the privileges of the job was that he got the chance to see world-class artworks collected by western museums. It was until 2008 that he quitted and became an independent artist.
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source: cfileonline

A bizarre creature has been haunting some of the most dramatic and beautiful landscapes in China, leaving behind vast arrays of thousands of giant eggs.

At least, this might be your first impression if you happened to crest one of the barren mountains of the Black Gobi last year when Chinese artist Shi Shaoping’s The Metamorphosis Series – The Eggs were installed there. Or, you may have stumbled across these same eggs installed in the golden sand dunes just outside of Dunhuang. If you were adventurous enough to approach the eggs, you would learn that what you had first taken to be the white of eggshells was actually a thick white glaze. Further inspection would reveal something much like a red terracotta clay right where the eggs nestled into the sand. A little tap and you’d know from the sound, though they may break, these ceramic eggs were never going to hatch.

To produce this sprawling artwork, Shi spent a year in the town of Jing De Zhen where he fired more than 3,000 22-pound eggs. (The entire piece weighs more than 48-tons.) Before these eggs ended up on the floor of the exhibition gallery of the Today Art Museum in Beijing (August 25 – September 9, 2013), Shi took his creations to some of China’s most dramatic landscapes, where he took into account the scale of the scenery when determining how to place the individual eggs. In addition to the mountains of the Black Gobi and the sand dunes of Dunhuang, the work transformed grasslands and coastal regions into bizarre nesting grounds. Shi Shaoping grew up in a family of biologists and was often surrounded by living specimens, such as frogs and insects, from his father’s biology experiments. In 1996, he graduated from the Stage Art Department of the Shanghai Theatre Academy and began working as an independent artist in 2008.