Birdcage & Bear No. 5

Liang Binbin

Highlights of the artwork

Strictly limited edition - Only 8 copies
Surreal allegory of childhood, luxury and captivity
Inspired by West and East - Contemporary sculptor from China
Based in Belgium since 2021

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Product number: 38155

Artist: Liang Binbin

Features and Remarks

Here you have the opportunity to acquire an original sculpture by the contemporary Chinese artist Liang Binbin

From 2006, Liang developed his teddy bear series - the deformation of a traditional Chinese birdcage, recognisable by the striking hook attachment, into the silhouette of a sitting bear.

As a child, the artist himself loved this westernised toy. Transformed into an art object, it becomes a surreal and humorous allegory of the emotional worlds and society between West and East.

The artist uses different materials for his series: Model No. 1, for example, is made of pure stainless steel, while other variants use plastic and leather to design the surfaces. The motif offered here, ‘No. 5’, captivates with a visually particularly fascinating surface finish on the stainless steel, which creates a rainbow-like iridescent patina.

Artists with punk roots

„His Teddy bear series is a parody to Western toy, and the Oriental style bird cage hook also reminds the audience the leisure class's decadent life and taste. The playfulness is the association of both elements. The Teddy bear's shape evokes the audience's childhood memory, and the bear's empty body somehow brings sentimental feelings; all these artist's personal emotions, were conveyed to the audience accurately via the artwork.“

Linlin Chen, 2011

Informations about the artwork

Category	Plastic
Farbwelt	Kühl & klar
artist	Binbin, Liang
year	2006
Title	Birdcage & Bear No. 5
size 1	119,0 x 48,0 x 53,0 cm
material	Stainless steel, iridescent patina
edition	8 copies, here No. 4
signature	Signed and numbered at the top of the cast: Liang Binbin 4/8
publication	vgl. Ming m. (2011): Reborn. Liang Binbin Works. Shanghai: AroundSpace Gallery
Provenance	Keumsan Art Gallery, BeijingDuBang Contemporary Space, Sanyi, TaiwanPrivate Collection Germany

Information about the condition

The Plastic is in a very good condition
Minimal surface traces.

Information about the artist

Liang Binbin (梁彬彬) wurde 1979 in Taizhou (Zhejiang), China, geboren.

Liang Beijing machte 1999 seinen ersten Abschluss im Bereich der Kunstdekoration am Institut für Kunst und Design in Peking. Anschließend studierte er Bildhauerei an der renommierten Chinesischen Zentralakademie der Bildenden Kunst, wo er 2005 sein Diplom erhielt.

Seine Kunst nutzt realistische Ausdrucksformen, mit dem Ziel unwirkliche Szenen zu schaffen. Damit möchte Liang die kulturelle Psyche der Gegenwart zum Ausdruck bringen. In den letzten Jahren zeigen seine Plastiken hauptsächlich Frauen und Kinder, die von fließenden Formen umgeben werden.

Der Künstler ist bekannt für seine Vielseitigkeit im Umgang mit verschiedenen Medien, darunter Ton, Acryl, Bronze und Edelstahl. Seine großformatigen Installationen wurden in zahlreichen Galerien in China ausgestellt. Darüber hinaus hat er an zahlreichen nationalen und internationalen Ausstellungen teilgenommen.

Liang Binbin lebt und arbeitet seit 2021 in Belgien.

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