MadeIn Gallery is pleased to present Cai Jian\u2019s solo exhibition \u201cHoldhold&Holdholdhold\u201d on September 4th, 2022. This is the artist\u2019s first solo exhibition at MadeIn Gallery, featuring a new series of sculptures.<\/p>\n
In his painting series \u201cHorizon\u201d from 2019, Cai zoomed in on the bubble inside spirit levels and insisted that each bubble, with a varying location, constituted a new reason for being. His work was a testament to the illusiveness or artificiality of time, space, and our perception thereof in an age intruded by digital technology. In the subsequent \u201cHyperfocus\u201d series, Cai fiddled with the optical speckle on lenses and dramatized the mutual gaze between the camera and the viewer.<\/p>\n
For the current exhibition, Cai continues his \u201creadily available ready-made\u201d mode of practice and extends it from painting to three-dimensional works. The exbition\u2019s same-titled sculptures, with their volume and colour, reflect the inspiration that the artist draws from rock climbing. When interacting with the \u201cshape of ready-mades\u201d as part of his creative process, he deploys the existential logic of the object itself to construct a new visual signification.<\/p>\n
Cai\u2019s practice is characterized by his discovery and imagination of new delights and ways of the existence of objects in contemporary society. Integrating diverse references including technology, material, and ready-made, he challenges the determinacy of our existential value while expanding its boundaries. Ultimately, he points to the absurdity, constantly being renewed, that clouds the relation between the object and its creator.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":3455,"template":"","tags":[28],"exhibitions_type":[7],"class_list":["post-3453","exhibitions","type-exhibitions","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-caijian","exhibitions_type-madein-gallery-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/3453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibitions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"exhibitions_type","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions_type?post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}