0332-FC-FL-Flexible Latitude (5) Zijkant 01-09-2011

0332-FC-FL-Flexible Latitude (5) Zijkant 01-09-2011

01-09-2011 In het kader van Den Haag sculpturen 2011

Cang Xin (born 1967) is an artist based in Beijing working in performance art and photography.
Cang Xin was born in Heilongjiang Province, China.
He holds the belief that all things have spirit — both animate and inanimate objects — and approaches his work as a means to promote harmonious communication with nature. His works have included bathing with lizards, adorning the clothing of strangers, and prostrating himself on icy glaciers: each act represents a ritual of becoming the other.[1] Cang xin takes the dynamic energy found in nature (Gold, Water, Wood, Fire, and Soil) and combines it with humanist and universal values to create his work. He bases this off of hunters, the original combination of humans and nature. Every use of material is a metaphor [2] Cang Xin Started with a different type of art, music. While in Music School he gained an interest in art but never got any formal training in art. To Cang Xin he believes art is more of a lifestyle than techniques. Most of his works are performance art. He was made famous by his Communication piece, a performance series where he licked various objects to become closer to them. These objects varied from bugs to posters to buildings and roads to the Great Wall of China. In Another Series he would swap closes with strangers. This Exhibition was called Existence in Translation and These exhibitions ties in with his shamanic beliefs that all life forms are linked by the endless transmigration of souls

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