Platform China is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition of Qiu Ruixiang Rabbit, Den, Barn , after Portrait of Self  in June 2014. The exhibition will be on view from March 17 through April 30, 2017. In the curator Lu Mingjun’s perspective, the artist has been seeking for a possible “idea” during the past three-year “repetitive labor work”. Such an “Idea” is not referring to others; it’s about himself.

As always, Qiu rarely appears in the public, nor cares about what is happening in the society. He was lost in his own world, maintaining an indifference attitude and a moderate rhythm. In the exhibition, an obvious change is that Qiu tries to get rid of a simple visual depth, seeking for a flat effort. Because the backgrounds were painted in single color, the figures and objects in foreground are isolated, not dominated by single visual system at all,the interweave of multiple dimensions form a fundamental structure. This kind of methodology originates neither from any particular reasons, nor someone’s influence; it is literally inspired by his own repetitive and serial practices. Such a methodology is also unique in the art history. To Qiu, repetition is a habit that closes to his daily routine rather than any conceptual practices. He considers it as an ordinary and usual “repetitive labor”.

Rabbit, Den and Barn are common themes throughout Qiu’s works, which are inspired by his life experience and memories in reference to the artist’s work and life. We can build a chain among these three factors: artist, painting(methodology) and daily life. But to Qiu, their relationships are always in a dilemma. No matter how the form and color is simple or how dark the tone is, it could be a bigoted personality or a cognitive limitation. But, we also find these figures are far away from their original meanings and symbolic logic in his continual, repetitive practices and experiments. They act as objective things or props on his “Mini Stage”. Sometimes, they are forced to be in a pure formal system. Maybe, this is an important step that he gets rid of dilemma and “limitation”. Ironically, he also enjoy such a “dilemma” and “limitation”.

Qiu Ruixiang was born in Shanxi, China in 1980. He graduated from oil painting department of Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in 2003 . Currently, he living and working in Xi’an, China.  Selected solo exhibitions : Qiu Ruixiang’s solo exhibition , Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Hong Kong, China(2015) ; Portrait of Self , Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China(2014) ;  Untitled , Fun Art Space, Beijing, China(2010) . Selected group exhibitions : Each to His Own - Li Wendong & Wei Xingye Collection , OCAT Contemporary Art Xi’an, Xi'an, China(2016) ; Nine Paintings , Space Local, Beijing, China(2016) ; Art To Me - OCAT Xi'an 2016 Spring Exhibitions , OCAT Contemporary Art Center Museum Xi'an, Xi'an, China(2016) ; Relocation Jubilee , Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China(2015) ; IVY ART 2015 · Chinese Young Artists Annual Exhibition , Today Art Museum, Beijing, China(2015) ; Painting Show - Part 2 , Galerie Rudiger Schoettle, Munich, Germany(2015) ; About Painting , OCAT Contemporary Art Center Museum in Xi'an, Xi'an, China(2014) ;  Jungle II - A Thriving Morphology: Theory Of Relativity , Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China(2013).