1991 Graduated from the High School of the
Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing, China
1995 Graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, oil painting department 4th studio, Beijing, China
Presently living and working in Beijing, China
SUNYUAN
1974 Born in Heilongjiang, China.
1994 Graduated from the High School of the
Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing, China.
1998 Graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, oil painting department 3rd studio, Beijing, China.
Presently living and working in Beijing, China
The participating artists and fashion designers in ASYLUM have several things in common: a slightly surrealistic touch, an interest in the body, and the creation of a persona.
© A-S Dåvik
During the 1930s the photographer Hans Bellmer created gruesome tableaux and sculptures by disjointing dolls and then assembling the parts to form macabre bodies. Seventy years later the fashion designer Ann-Sofie Back created dresses out of parts of design patterns which actually did not fit together—a kind of art historical assemblage-technique, if you will.
Fitting together by sewing became Maria Miesenberger's way into the world of sculpture. Her first objects were influenced by the homemade clothes which her mother had sewn from pattern sheets bought in a textile shop. Pa...