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About Pu Yingwei x BCA Labs "Currency Plan Universal Equivalent"
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https://www.instagram.com/puyingwei/
This time, BCA will create NFT based on Pu Yingwei's "Sovereign Currency" series of art works, and will issue the "Currency Plan Universal Equivalent" series of NFT projects in the near future. The "Currency Plan Universal Equivalent" currently includes four "currency" images, which respectively symbolize several different dimensions of connections between people and themselves, people and others, and people and the world in the virtual world; these four "currencies" will also be It is issued in the virtual world in stages and gradients, and as a variety of attributes, it plays functions such as circulation, vouchers, settlement, collection, etc. in the virtual world.
The [Red Coin], which symbolizes contemporary red visual culture, is composed of letters invented by the artist and composed of "imperial fonts" that combine English, Chinese, and Russian, symbolizing the diversity and complexity of contemporary red culture.
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About the Artist & History
Pu Yingwei, born in 1989, currently works and lives in Beijing, China. In 2013, he graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree; in 2018, he graduated from the Lyon National Academy of Fine Arts with a master's degree and won the highest award from the jury. Pu Yingwei's work is defined as a conceptual art practice with strong utopian enthusiasm. The artist understands the multi-media and identity narrative he practices in the public sphere as a comprehensive mobilization. Taking personal history as an absolute starting point, through different forms of work such as exhibitions, writing, design, lectures, and teaching, the artist tries to produce a "metapolitics" that transcends grand propositions such as race, country, and ethics. This politics is as complex and paradoxical as the reality we experience.
Illustrations from past works:
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100x80cm, oil on canvas, paint pens, crayons, collage, stamps, 2020, image courtesy of the artist
Awards:
John Moores Painting Award (2012), his article "Imperial Legacy - On "Pacing: Seventy Years of Walking" and its Silence" won the second prize of the IAAC International Art Critic Award (2019);
Shortlisted for the Huayu Youth Award (2018), selected for the China Art Rights List (2019);
Shortlisted for the Jimei x Arles International Photography Season Discovery Award (2020), selected for the Gen.T Asian Emerging Pioneer List (2020), shortlisted for the Porsche Chinese Young Artist Biennial Selection (2021), and the film "Interview" was selected for the French Caen Film Festival (2018).
Exhibition experience:
solo exhibition
"A Study in Scarlet: The Re-Origin of Revolutionary Realism", MAMOTH, London, 2021;
"Obscure Adventures: Speculative Pop and Pan-Chinese", SSSSTART Star Art Museum Research Center, Shanghai, 2021;
"Photography Ethics: China-Africa Album", Jimei x Arles Discovery Award, Xiamen, 2020;
"Time, History, We (Why We Fight)", Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2020;
"Pu Yingwei and Chinese Capital", MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2020;
"Pu Yingwei, or Fiction after 1989", Device Space, Chongqing, 2019;
"Double Empire", New China Law School, Lyon, 2018;
"As Real", Galerie Sator Gallery, Paris, 2018;
"Pu Yingwei and Jim Thompson Architects", J: GALLERY, Shanghai, 2017;
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group exhibition
"ON|OFF 2021: Back to the Future", He Art Museum, Shunde, 2022;
"The 13th Shanghai Biennale: Body of Water", Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2021;
"Ring Crash: Video 21", OCAT Shanghai Pavilion, Shanghai, 2021;
"Document Collection: Seven Clues", Taikang Space, Beijing, 2020;
"He who sees and knows all things is all things", 798 Art Center, Beijing;
"Evil is", Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2020;
"Love Dance Divine Comedy", Taikang Space, Beijing, 2018;
"Landing in the Comfort Zone?", Taikang Space-Sunshine Pavilion Project, Beijing, 2018;
"Territory-Topology of Geographies", OCAT Shanghai Pavilion/OCAT Research Center, Shanghai/Beijing, 2017–2018;
"The Art of Fiction", OCAT Shenzhen Pavilion, Shenzhen, 2018;
"Global Positioning", Qiao Space & Oil Tank Art Center Project Space, Shanghai, 2017;
"Teaching and Teaching - The Third Experimental Art Document Exhibition", Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 2017;
"Liverpool Biennale - John Moores Painting Prize", Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2012.
Planning project:
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Introduction to BCA Gallery
BCA Gallery is China's first encrypted art gallery, committed to cooperating with high-quality artists and creative groups at home and abroad, and providing first-class encrypted art creation support. With the realization of Web3 as our vision, we combine NFT creative concepts with curatorial logic, and gradually become the hub connecting global encrypted art galleries, providing artists, collectors and art communities with safe, fair and dynamic display opportunities and online Linked high-quality exhibition presentation.
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