INTERVIEW ​ Peter Jeppson DEN GODHJÄRTADE KONSTNÄREN @Artworks Peter Jeppson inledde sitt konstnärskap inom graffitikonsten som sedan ledde in honom på grafisk design och tog även vägen förbi illustration. Idag ägnar han sig mestadels åt måleri, och broderi. Peter har ställt ut i solo- och grupputställningar i Sverige, USA, Slovenien och Storbritannien. Hans verk är fyllda av välkända seriekaraktärer men istället för att försöka göra en så verklighetstrogen avbildning av dessa skapar han snarare “dåliga kopior” men som adderar nya drag och andra ansiktsuttryck eller sinnesstämningar än vad man är van vid att se hos karaktärerna. Read More

Byungho Lee Jang Pa Jiyoung Yoo Seungcheol OK Yaerim Ryu Linked ​ Object: Third Sense On View Mar 8 - Apr 13 2024 A collaboration with Gallery Kiche ARCHIVE Chialing Chang & Chih Chiu - Object: Third Sense Mar 8 - Apr 13 , 2024 Bingqian Yan - Another Parallel Dec 22 - Jan 27, 2024 Xiaoguo Chen - Children of The World Nov 6 - Dec 16, 2023 Tianshu Zhang - Entropy and Hidden Force Sep 22 - Oct 28, 2023 Ruofan Chen - Time moves with merciful slowness Aug 4 - Sep 16, 2023 DETOUR June 9 - July 15, 2023 Peter Jeppson - Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Mar 03 - Apr 15, 2023 ORIGINIS Nov 08 - Dec 10, 2022 Null Protocol Oct 07 - Nov 04, 2022 The Blooming Moment Jul 29 - Aug 27, 2022 Ruini Shi - Emotional Autonomous Region Jun 30 - Jul 23, 2022 A Fund of Gifts Dec 24, 2021 - Jan 18, 2022 Hidden Message Nov 10 - Dec 12, 2021 Self Delivery Oct 9 - Oct 31, 2021 USB: Multiple Port Aug 28 - Sep 26, 2021 The Fiction Jul 15 - Aug 15, 2021 Game Over, Play Again Apr 24 - Jun 6, 2021 FAIRS 021海报.jpg 西岸海报.jpg GZ Contemporary Art Fair Dec 26 - Dec 29, 2021 Art Xiamen Jun 17 - 20, 2021 錨點 1 ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair Nov10 - Nov 13 2022 Guangzhou Contemporary Art Fair Dec 26, 2021 - Dec 29, 2021 West Bund Art & Design 2022 Nov10 - Nov 13 2022 Art xiamen & Design Fair June 17, 2021 - June 20, 2021

錨點 1 Leo Park b.1995 Ding Hongdan, born in Guangzhou in December1995, graduated from the Third Studio of Oil Painting Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts, receiving a bachelor's degree in 2018 and a master's degree in 2021. She is currently studying a Ph.D. program at CAFA, supervised by professor Liu Xiaodong. ​ WORK OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS ARTICLES ARTWORKS 錨點 2 EXHIBITION 錨點 3 DSC03440.jpg Null Protocol Oct 7 - Nov 4 2022

GIOVANNI MOTTA April 24 2021 - June 6 2021 Game Over play again? INSTALLATION VIEWS WORKS ARTISTS ROOMINTHEROOMBASSA.jpg ​Giovanni Motta Gallery Func is pleased to present GAME OVER play again? - the new solo exhibition of Giovanni Motta in which will be exhibited 14 paintings in acrylic on canvas and 2 sculptures, one in fiberglass and one in bronze, of the recent production of the Italian artist. ​ Belonging to the so - called Generation X and having grown up, therefore, in the eighties, it is not surprising that the signs and codes of the evolutionary age assume, for him, the form of objects that can be traced back to that decade. Japanese manga and anime, American cartoons and the first videogames, the user - friendly technology of the origins, with that mixture of simplicity and candor, and the entire merchandise catalog of the consumerism of the Eighties appear in his paintings as epiphenomena, revelations that correspond to states of mind lost in the meanders of memory, removed from the conscious layers of adult life. The personification of Giovanni Motta's puer aeternus is Jonny, a child who seems to have come out of the pencil of a mangaka, whose an atomical morphology is typical of a growing individual, with a tiny body and a hypertrophic head. Jonny is the artist's infantilized stand-in, the puberty avatar, the inner ghost, the aesthetic conformation of an unconscious projection, but it is also, by extension, a signal, a symbol that indicates anabsence, that underlines the vulnus, the wound, the gash that tears the existence of the adapted and uniformed man. Motta uses Jonny as a warning to himself and others, but also as an empirical demonstration that healing, everyone's healing, is possible through the rediscovery and recovery of this imperishable entity that frees us from time and senescence. In GAMEOVER play again? the enthusiasm is encoded in the form of the videogame metaphor. The condition of the player, estranged from everyday reality, is represented through the image of Jonny's fluctuation. But for Giovanni Motta the videogame is - like toys, food and consumer goods - only a symbol. What counts is the mood of the player, that feeling of "divine invasion" that accompanies the moments of euphoria and amazement of childhood, an emotional heritage that seems destined to fade in time. ​ Curated by Ivan Quaroni / Cherryup / Ricc

Emotional Autonomous Region When Crypto Meets Funeral & Wedding Artist: SHI Ruini Curator: MIAO Zijin Jun 30 - Jul 23 2022 INSTALLATION VIEWS WORKS ARTIST 施蕊妮 SHI Ruini SHI Ruini 「How should we present an inappropriate opening ceremony? 」This is the open question raised when the exhibition was initially conceived. Ruini Shi and her team present two virtual platforms named "FuneralPlay" and "LoveCounter" investigating whether a better and more friendly interactive experience could be achieved by users attending digital funerals and weddings if blockchain technology reaches certain maturity. De-centralized emotional service operations simulate "X-to-Earn", a reward mechanism of blockchain game. Participants invest in FuneralPlay in exchange for souvenirs in memory of the deceased (Play-to-Earn); likewise, the mourning time invested in FuneralPlay could be exchanged for souvenirs in memory of the deceased (Mourn-to-Earn). Lovers who sign LoveCounter, an intelligent marriage contract, will earn love Karma for the time they spend together online, the properties they contribute and the interactions between the two of them to trigger user-defined life events (Love-to-Earn). Are the new game rules in X-to-Earn for quantifying emotions sufficient to express true sadness or love? Can proof-of-love be delivered for cryptographic transactions? Emotional capitalism supported by Web 2.0, and in particular the dating software, have further standardized and commodified emotions. Through monitoring data generated by users with the assistance of algorithms lockchain-based Web 3.0 empowers users to take back ownership of their personal data from tech giants. What FuneralPlay and LoveCounter, the two interactive websites launched by the artist as conceptual and de-materialized media, produce are performative situations in which diverse values co-exist. Inspirations for scene constructions derive from creators' surveys and sampling of the identities and free will of their families and friends. Such non-fictional and unquantified data of emotions hereby collected attempt to draw an alternative collective portrait of contemporary youth. If "emotional autonomous region", which exists in parallel with the governance of the state or religion, is reckoned as one of the mental options for alleviating faith crisis, survival guide for the future may include a strategy of disappearance. In other words, escaping from the omnipresence of big data and managing our digital footprints at our own discretion have become an increasingly imperative urge. Within a closed system, encrypted funeral and wedding offer pathways for vulnerable individuals to cope with force majeure. When we reconnect with the real world, an inappropriate opening ceremony seems more like a ceremony of care, a scarce material in the contemporary context. Text / Miao Zijin

錨點 1 Peter Jeppson b.1985 The work of artist Peter Jeppson will steal you away from your own reality and have you placed in a world of his own creation, complete with his irresistibly curious characters. Bubbling with texture and vivid emotions, Jeppson’s creatures put a new, strange twist on cartoons — as they are far from the cartoons you may be used to seeing on television. Instead, the artist paints his characters with complicated expressions that are not so easily understood, making them anything but one-dimensional. Jeppson’s characters are created not only two-dimensionally in paint, but are also brought into the third dimension in his densely layered and brilliantly peculiar sculptures. These somewhat humorous figures are interesting in a way that is just slightly off, leaving the complexity of the artist’s work at its surface. ​ Describing himself as self-taught, the artist's artistic path is very similar to many others: the beginnings of doodling led him into illustration/graphic design and then further into painting, which became what the artist has been doing for many years. He has always been fascinated by the figure, and when the artist began to work more in illustration, he practised drawing it regularly. According to himself, there is a fine line between the cute and crispy cartoons with dramatic expressions and the characters that give impressions of being more vague and complex in their state of mind, and he aims for the second one there. WORK OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS ARTICLES ARTWORKS 錨點 2 EXHIBITION 0X0A8576.jpg DSC03998.jpg 錨點 3 Hidden Message Dec 24, 2021 - Jan 22, 2022 ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair Nov10 - Nov 13 2022 ARTICLES 錨點 4 截屏2022-03-05 下午3.30.00.png 截屏2022-03-05 下午4.35.21.png On the hunt for complex emotions @ArtMazeMag DEN GODHJÄRTADE KONSTNÄREN @ Artworks

Devra Fox Hannah Wilson Janes Haid-Schmallenberg Jochen Mühlenbrink Leo Park TANG Shuo Null Protocol Oct 7 - Nov 4 2022 A collaboration with Gallery Kiche INSTALLATION VIEWS WORKS ARTISTS 2d30f52c559d5eb4472673f1321ff94.jpg 微信图片_20220826115228.png 24835bccfb2fd48c2a1ceedea667493.jpg 微信图片_20220928152618.png a8897386141980554689795b6090d5e.jpg 小1.png Hannah Wilson Jochen Mühlenbrin Janes Haid-Schmallenberg Devra Fox ​Leo Park TANG Shuo Null Protocol features a selection of paintings by artists from different countries and regions. Though the subjects of the works vary, they are all teeming with a strong sense of spiritual introspection, which is rooted in the subtle equilibrium and interplay between their visual forms and the subjects. Through the artists’ respective signature ways of expression, they offer their vision and response to the conventional aesthetic rules and spiritual protocols inherent to modernist painting traditions. ​ Looking back upon the history of painting, a new period will always make the conventional rules from the past null protocol as they are no longer valid on artists with pioneering spirit. The artists featured in this exhibition, following the tradition of modernist painting on the one hand, attempt to revisit the aesthetic protocol of modernism in a different spiritual time and space. While unfolding endless imagination and their respective visual decisions, they also reiterate the profundities and possibilities of painting, a most ancient and traditional medium, and show people the exuberant vitality of painting as a tool to combat the alienation of thinking and rigidity. ​ Text. Yihong LIU ​ ​ Devra Fox The visceral and organic figures in American artist Devra Fox’s works are reminiscent of the notion of “betrayal of flesh”. If we associate her works with the “back views” or “mirror images” in classic paintings by masters like Rubens or Velazquez, we’d see the implications behind the bilaterally symmetric images, which could be seen as a metaphor of the multiple states of being, the split self and unity of humanity. Hannah Wilson Hannah Wilson, also an artist from U.S, imbues her paintings with a pressing sense of anxiety through the use of subtle colors and restrained brushstrokes. The somewhat spiritual texture of the work reminds people of shots of Hitchcock’s movies; and the restrained processing of shapes and tones sheds light on traces of the artist’s subconsciousness as she has made a placid and intriguing reassessment of the authenticity of concepts and forms of expression. Janes Haid-Schmallenberg German artist Janes Haid-Schmallenberg incorporates forces of creation, destruction and transformation into the intricately interconnected imagery through drastically distorted shapes, stretching, splitting and reassembling elements evocative of dueling to form a complex spatial context that highlights the emotional power dissolved in the space. Jochen Mühlenbrin Artist Jochen Mühlenbrink , also from Germany, resorts to haziness to create a sense of infinity within the painting frame. The rich and profound landscape growing out of two-dimensional space is disrupted by the traces of fortuity covering it, making the implicit images a symbol of concept. In this context, painting becomes an approach to explore and reflect on the trendy concept of “field”. Leo Park Swedish artist Leo Park’s small-sized pencil on paper works seem to be the reproduction of memories transcending time and space. In the meantime, the humorous and light-hearted composition reveals an extraordinary sense of imagination and vision reminding people of Dali. The unique and powerful forms open up a brand new aesthetic experience for the viewers. ​ ​ TANG Shuo Chinese artist TANG Shuo presents an exploration into the secrets of the nature, which could also be reckoned as an attempt to make peace with oneself. Beneath the somewhat strange landscape there lies a spiritual space of uncertainties. The way he deals with spatial composition and light and shadow shows profound understanding and great mastery of classical techniques. Devra Fox Hannah Wilson Janes Haid-Schmallenberg Jochen Mühlenbrin Leo Park TANG Shuo

Nov10 - Nov 13 2022 ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair INSTALLATION VIEWS WORKS ARTISTS motta 1000-1000.png whisper underwater, 2022 - oil, acrylic, resin, copper and mirror on canvas - 144x144cm.jp 微信图片_20221008123303.png Put the phone down 100x102 cm.jpg pod_185.png 25183cd1b23e37dafec1de62da7c713a.jpg 图片1.png 2022-10-13 155217.jpg Peter Jeppson Millie Kelly Luisa Mè Giovanni Motta Shigeki Matsuyama Tingwei LIANG Xiuching Tsay Yuna YU

錨點 2 Ally Rosenberg b.1995 Ding Hongdan, born in Guangzhou in December1995, graduated from the Third Studio of Oil Painting Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts, receiving a bachelor's degree in 2018 and a master's degree in 2021. She is currently studying a Ph.D. program at CAFA, supervised by professor Liu Xiaodong. ​ WORK OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS ARTICLES ARTWORKS 錨點 3 EXHIBITION The Fiction July 15 - Aug 15, 2021 0X0A9759.jpg 錨點 4

Dec 26 2021 - Dec 29 2021 Guangzhou Contemporary Art Fair INSTALLATION VIEWS WORKS ARTISTS WechatIMG6554.jpeg viewfile-3.png IMG_2494.jpeg 鎴睆2021-11-24 涓嬪崍4.53.14.png WechatIMG3623.jpeg 01_G_Motta_Forgetting Sand_120X120_cm_Acrylic_on_Canvas.jpg Crash, 2021.png IMG_4125.jpeg Seungcheol Ok ​Gao Hang Fátima de Juan Matthew F Fisher Wang Jingyi Giovanni Motta Yokoteen Erkut Terliksiz