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Shi Jindian (师进滇) is a Sichuan-based sculptor born in 1953, who graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing in 1974. Unlike traditionally solid and opaque sculptures, Shi Jindian’s works are ethereal replicas of everyday objects rendered in stainless steel wire mesh. Choosing to use stainless steel wires, he learned to crochet two-dimensional strands into three-dimensional forms using tools of his own devising. After weaving wire mesh around an object, Shi destroys or extracts the object to leave only the steel ‘shadow’.
The result, he says, is a kind of fiction, a virtual reality that can be walked around and touched. Shi Jindian has produced sculptural replicas of a range of objects, from hulking military vehicles like bikes and jeeps to delicate musical instruments like violins. Accurate to the smallest detail and sometimes taking years to make, his works transform even the most industrial forms into objects of airy contemplation. Finding serenity in the complex toil and texture, Shi Jindian appreciates when people touch his sculptures, as in doing so, they can also touch “the state of mind that emerges from the labor of my hands: tranquility and calm.”
Shi Jindian has produced installations for interior and exterior spaces and his works can be found in the public collections of the Montpellier Contemporary Chinese Art Biennale (France), Seoul Art Museum (Korea), White Rabbit Collection (Australia), and Hermès (Shanghai, Hong Kong) among others.
Shi Jindian (师进滇) is a Sichuan-based sculptor born in 1953, who graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing in 1974. Unlike traditionally solid and opaque sculptures, Shi Jindian’s works are ethereal replicas of everyday objects rendered in stainless steel wire mesh. Choosing to use stainless steel wires, he learned to crochet two-dimensional strands into three-dimensional forms using tools of his own devising. After weaving wire mesh around an object, Shi destroys or extracts the object to leave only the steel ‘shadow’.
The result, he says, is a kind of fiction, a virtual reality that can be walked around and touched. Shi Jindian has produced sculptural replicas of a range of objects, from hulking military vehicles like bikes and jeeps to delicate musical instruments like violins. Accurate to the smallest detail and sometimes taking years to make, his works transform even the most industrial forms into objects of airy contemplation. Finding serenity in the complex toil and texture, Shi Jindian appreciates when people touch his sculptures, as in doing so, they can also touch “the state of mind that emerges from the labor of my hands: tranquility and calm.”
Shi Jindian has produced installations for interior and exterior spaces and his works can be found in the public collections of the Montpellier Contemporary Chinese Art Biennale (France), Seoul Art Museum (Korea), White Rabbit Collection (Australia), and Hermès (Shanghai, Hong Kong) among others.
| 1953 | Born in Sichuan, China |
| 1974 | Studied at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China Currently lives and works in Chengdu, China |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2018 | From Empty to Static, D Space, Chengdu, China Nowhere Land – Shi Jindian Solo Exhibition, Qian Hai Guan Yi Art Space, Shenzhen, China |
| 2017 | Leave No Trace – Shi Jindian, Lakeville Gallery, Shanghai, China Shi Jindian – The Presence of Lines, Beijing, China Shi Jindian Solo Exhibition, YiMa Gallery, Chengdu, China |
| 2016 | Variation – Shi Jindian, Shanghai, China Rosewood – Collections of Shi Jindian, Chengdu, China |
| 2015 | Boundless, Shanghai, China Rhythm – Shi Jindian, Guangzhou, China Shi Jindian, Pin Art, Beijing, China |
| 2013 | Shi Jindian: Paintings & Sculptures, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, China |
| 2012 | 1 Material Object, Chengdu, China |
| 2010 | Fabrication – Shi Jindian Solo Exhibition, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, China Shi Jindian – Sculptures & Paintings, Thousand Plateaus Art Space Chengdu, China |
| 2007 | Shi Jindian: Paintings & Sculptures, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, China |
| 2004 | Real Fictitiousness – Shi Jindian Solo Exhibition, Sichuan Sculpture Art Institute & Chengdu Imperial Art Academy, Chengdu, China |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2019 | Extreme Mix, Guangzhou Airport Biennale, Guangzhou, China Be Able but Modest Group Exhibition, Guofeng Art Space, Shenzhen, China Poetic Reunion, D Space, Chengdu, China |
| 2018 | Art Tianjin, Tianjin, China Dongguang Sculpture and Installation Art Festival, Dongguang, China |
| 2017 | International New Media Art Festival, Chongqing, China Longitude and Latitude, Dialogue between ‘Kesi’ and Contemporary Art, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China Lumen Matrix. International Digital Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, China Symbol and Metaphor, Yi Lang International | X Gallery, Guangzhou, China |
| 2016 | Artificial Garden, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China The Gate to Art, Chengdu, China |
| 2015 | Encounter – Sculpture in Yintai, The 4th Season of Yintai Aesthetics, Chengdu Yintai Center, China Multiple Dimensions – Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Sichuan, China |
| 2014 | Winshare -The New – Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Winshare Art Gallery, Chengdu, China Art Asia, Shanghai, China |
| 2013 | 2013 China International Sculptures Almanac Exhibition, Beijing, China Voice of the Unseen: Chinese Independent Art Since 1979 – 55th Venice Biennale Parallel Exhibition, Venice, Italy |
| 2012 | Deconstruction: Jeremy Dean, Georgia Russell, Shi Jindian, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, China Return of the Art – Contemporary Chinese Art from Changjiang Convergence, Changjiang Art & Culture Club, Chongqing, China National Exhibition of Artistic Works in Celebration of 85th Anniversary of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), i.e. the 12th Exhibition of Artistic Works of the Whole Army, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China West – Chengdu & Chongqing Contemporary Sculpture Invitational Exhibition, Winshare Art Gallery, Chengdu, China re.zis.tãs, Rhizome – Lijiang Art Center, Lijiang, China East Wing X: ‘Material Matters’, The Courtauld Institute of Art, The University of London, London, UK The 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China Golden Bridge International Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China |
| 2011 | Collect – Conceptual Art Exhibition, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China The Decade of the Rabbit, The White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia Distill Arts Festival, Shanghai, China Nostalgia and Rendevouz – Nanjing, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing Contemporary Art Exhibition Tour, China Chengdu Biennale – Blue Top Artists Sculpture Exhibition, Chengdu, China Chengdu Biennale – Sichuan Stream Contemporary Art Documenta Shuangliu Exhibition Tour, Chengdu, China Cracked Culture?/The quest for Identity in Contemporary Chinese Art – 54th Venice Biennale Collateral Event, Palazzo Giustinian Recanati, Venice, Italy; Guangdong Museum of Art, China STEP 09 ART FAIR, Milan, Italy |
| 2010 | The Tao of Now, The White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia Nature of China – Contemporary Art Documenta, True Color Museum, Suzhou, China Xian Qujiang International Shadow Arts Festival, Xian, China |
| 2009 | Chengdu Arts Home Opening Exhibition, Chengdu Arts Home, Chengdu, China Creative Chengdu 2009, Chengdu Government, Chengdu, China Image Spirit III – Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Chengdu, China China Power – 2009 China International Sculptures Almanac Exhibition, Beijing, China |
| 2008 | Through the Pole – The 4th Songzhuang Art Festival, Beijing, China Summer Collection Exhibition, Andrew Bae Gallery, Chicago, USA Image Spirit II, Seoul, Korea Art Charity China – 2008 Chinese Contemporary Art International Touring Exhibition, Beijing / Hong Kong, China, Tokyo, Japan Multiple Truths: He Duoling, He Gong and Shi Jindian, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China |
| 2007 | Works and Poetic Sentiment, Guangzhou, China Reconstructed World View, Chengdu, China Post-Avant-garde Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hong Kong, China Contemporary Masters, Osage Gallery, Singapore Alike but Not the Same: Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Yanhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China Guiyang Biennale, Guiyang, China Starting from the Southwest, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangdong, China Chinese Whispers: Chinese Contemporary Art Group Exhibition, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, China Crossovers, Contrasts Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2006 | Alike but not the Same : Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture from Southwest China, Chengdu, China Crossovers: Beyond Art & Design, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China Wired Imagination, Chicago, USA Chinese Avant-Garde Art Protagonists, Marseilles, France Fiction@Love / Forever Young Land, Shanghai MOCA, Shanghai, China Fiction@Love / Twinkling Stars, Bund 18 Creative Center, Shanghai, China |
| 2005 | And On the Reality, Seoul, Korea Clouds Duo Exhibition, 798 Space, Beijing, China (Sino-French Cultural Year, French Cultural Year Committee of Honour, European Airbus) Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China Montpellier Chinese Contemporary Art Biennale, Montpellier, France Shanghai Cool – Creative Reproduction International Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China Love Paradise International Touring Exhibition, Century Platform Museum, Beijing, China |
| 2004 | Appearance – Joint Exhibition of Shi Jindian and Yang Liming, Chengdu Modern Art Center, Chengdu, China |
| 2003 | Professional and Amateur – Art Communication Activities, Chengdu, China |
| 2001 | “Crossway” Artistic Suggestion of Urban Public Environment Exhibition, Chengdu, China 1995 The 8th National Fine Art Exhibition, China |
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing, China
The Montpellier Contemporary Chinese Art Biennale, France Seoul Art Museum, Korea
The White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection, Australia Hermes, Shanghai, China
Hermes, Hong Kong, China
