Feng Mengbo
Q4U_2003
ShangArt Gallery
2A Gaolan Rd.
200020 Shanghai
+86 21 6359 3923
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www.shanghart.com
Feng Mengbo, SHOT_Q, photo, 75x100cm, 2003
Current EXHIBITION
Feng Mengbo: Q4U_2003
till February 25, 2003
China’s leading new media artist shows works related Q4U at ShanghART,
Shanghai
Q4U is Feng Mengbo adaptation of the popular Internet game ‘Quake
3’. The
new game is featuring a 3-D likeness of Feng Mengbo holding a video
camera
in one hand and a plasma riffle in the other. The story is the same as
in
the original Quake 3: simply kill or be killed.
‘Q4U’ was shown at the 11th Documenta in Kassel and, in an other
version,
recently at the Guangzhou Triennial in Southern China.
In his exhibition at ShanghART, his first solo exhibition in China,
Feng
Mengbo shows works – including painting, photos and a video – related to
Feng Mengbo, born 1966, was initially trained as a printmaker at the
Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He began making digitally-based
work in the early 1990’s. Feng Mengbo has participated at the
Dokumenta
Kassel (both Dokumenta10 and 11) and hold solo exhibitions at Holly
Solomon Gallery, NY; Hanart Gallery; Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee; DIA
Center for the Art, NY; Renaissance Society,Chicago etc.
Since the early 1990’s Feng Mengbo has worked at the intersection
between
painting and digital medium. His interactive digital works ‘My
Private
Album’ (1996)‘Taking Mr. Doom by Strategy’ (1997),
‘Q3’ (1993) are part of
the history of new media art in China and have been shown widely in
China
and internationally
