Han Bing Being, artist (China, Beijing)
How to Love in the Cold Age", performance, 2017
Use my body temperature to melt a piece of ice... This Performance video is the part of "How to Love in the Cold Age"( (six hours ), from the series “Biography of Melting Ice”( 2012-2017) About: Use my body temperature to melt a piece of ice.
In terms of physically , It is both warm the ice (love) and melt the ice(destroy)；it is both passing body warmth to the cold and trying to seek body warmth from the cold ——It explore an Existentialist Paradox. In terms of spirituality, Use body to melt ice, it is both the release of heart temperature and it is the lack of heart temperature . metaphor attempts to warm the indifference of the soul of the entire age with the temperature of the soul of the individual, uses the "warm action"of individual as a struggle against the cold age. In terms of conceptually, "how to explain body temperature to a piece of ice", also explore the Interaction between human flesh energy (feeling thing) and natural material energy (ruthless thing), and the Interaction between human subjective will and the nature change of time . (Host: Shanhai Art Museum, Beijing, Curator: Wang Yong, Copyright: ©️Han Being)
Han Bing Being （韓冰宇)
Multimedia artist, Performer, Photographer, Film Director, Writer. live in Berlin. Han Being born in a grass cottage on the east sea, DongYi (Han Country) grew up in horse farm, fifteen years of labor in the rural areas. Later, Han went to study oil painting in the Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing). In Beijing, Han was moved by the harsh contrast between the urbanized "Chinese dream" propelling the nation's struggle to become "modern," and the cruel realities of those left behind, or trodden underfoot in this stampede. Exploring the struggles and desires of ordinary people in China's "theater of modernization," his works invert quotidian practice, reinvent everyday objects and ask us to rethink the order of things. Han’s artistic creation explores the relationship between people and things from the perspective of the natural and social aspects of everyday life. On the other hand, Han's works transcends the dual boundaries of art and life, and explores the Unbound emotion ----Committed to transcending the universe connection of race, gender, country, class and religious affiliation.the modern civilization and natural civilization, the break of ecological culture and social culture, and questioning the way of contemporary spiritual home in the space-time of the mutant gene. exhibitions: Han has held solo exhibitions at the Next Generation Art Museum of China (Beijing,2017), FitzGerald Fine Arts ( New York, 2016) , Ing Space . (Beijing,2016),Hua Gallery (London, 2013.10-2014.1),Espace gallery, (New Delhi, 2010),The International 3, (Manchester, UK,2008),Columbia Museum of Art (USA 2007) And Han ’s group shown at Arles international photography festival(Arles,2007),The 12th Venice architecture biennale(Venice,2010), Detour, Centre Pompidou(Paris), white cube gallery (London),(2008),Pot Luck：food and art, PM Gallery & House, London, （2010);Asia Triennial Manchester (UK, 2008,2018), 12th Houston photography festival (2008,USA); the Chinese contemporary art collection show (natio
Multimedia artist, Performer, Photographer, Film Director, Writer. live in Berlin. Han Being born in a grass cottage on the east sea, DongYi (Han Country) grew up in horse farm, fifteen years of labor in the rural areas. Later, Han went to study oil painting in the Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing). In Beijing, Han was moved by the harsh contrast between the urbanized "Chinese dream" propelling the nation's struggle to become "modern," and the cruel realities of those left behind, or trodden underfoot in this stampede. Exploring the struggles and desires of ordinary people in China's "theater of modernization," his works invert quotidian practice, reinvent everyday objects and ask us to rethink the order of things. Han’s artistic creation explores the relationship between people and things from the perspective of the natural and social aspects of everyday life. On the other hand, Han's works transcends the dual boundaries of art and life, and explores the Unbound emotion ----Committed to transcending the universe connection of race, gender, country, class and religious affiliation.the modern civilization and natural civilization, the break of ecological culture and social culture, and questioning the way of contemporary spiritual home in the space-time of the mutant gene. exhibitions: Han has held solo exhibitions at the Next Generation Art Museum of China (Beijing,2017), FitzGerald Fine Arts ( New York, 2016) , Ing Space . (Beijing,2016),Hua Gallery (London, 2013.10-2014.1),Espace gallery, (New Delhi, 2010),The International 3, (Manchester, UK,2008),Columbia Museum of Art (USA 2007) And Han ’s group shown at Arles international photography festival(Arles,2007),The 12th Venice architecture biennale(Venice,2010), Detour, Centre Pompidou(Paris), white cube gallery (London),(2008),Pot Luck：food and art, PM Gallery & House, London, （2010);Asia Triennial Manchester (UK, 2008,2018), 12th Houston photography festival (2008,USA); the Chinese contemporary art collection show (natio
