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Belgian artist Ronny Delrue has made ceramic works with the theme of CCM\uff1aCenter for Cloning and Manipulation, which are his new experimental creation since 2003. His works in the past were mainly drawings and paintings; however his change on the choice of materials is actually his continuation and development on the same theme.
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\r\nIn the past twenty years the images that Ronny has created are mainly about people. One of his artworks\u2019 special characteristics lies in infusing various abstract thinking and perspectives of thinking in identifiable images. Thoughts on abstraction come from his strong demands on simplicity and purity, while simplicity and purity don\u2019t mean synoptically dealing with images in a visual form; instead it\u2019s sheer concentration of psychological experience.
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\r\nIn this exhibition audience witness a new result showing above-mentioned viewpoints presented by Ronny through his ceramics works Center for Cloning and Manipulation after creating a large number of drawings and paintings. A visual form that looks like a bomb but actually symbolically summarizes and presents human bodies: no heads and arms, two legs almost visible while the white colour of ceramics the material itself suggests the simplicity and purity. Two hundred pieces of human figure sculptures more or less remind the audience of Chinese terracotta warriors; the difference is that Ronny\u2019s works diminishes characteristics and individuality of each figure using the form of cloning.
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\r\nThe exhibition site is Chinese European Art Centre in Xiamen, a southern Chinese city. Ronny as an artist in residence came to Xiamen to live and create his works, in the meantime gave a series of lectures about his artistic creation in Xiamen University Art College. His living and working experience in Xiamen naturally presents his feelings about everyday life in China through the way he displays his works. Above CEAC gate he hangs a cheap billboard that is often seen outside various shops in Chinese cities and two big red signs using \u201cCollection 2009\u201d this kind of advertising terms to express his ceramics figure sculptures. What are the differences between artistic creation and products cloning? Ronny uses a very special way \u201cCentre for Cloning and Manipulation\u201d, the concept through which he puts forward his further thinking and offers perspectives for the audience for dialogues between two different cultural backgrounds.
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\r\nQin Jian
\r\nSept. 27, 2009
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