Guo Donglai

1985 Born in Beijing

2008 Graduated from the Fine Arts Department of National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts with a bachelor´s degree

2012 Graduated from the National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts with a master´s degree

2015 Graduated from the Luca Caccioni Studio of Visual Arts,Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, Italy

Currently works and lives in Beijing and Bologna

SOLO EXHIBITION

2015

En un clin d’œil - Guo Donglai Solo Exhibition, Galerie Liusa Wang, Paris, France

GROUP EXHIBITION

2017

2017 Art Nova 100, Beijing, China

The 2^nd Wall Power, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2016

2016Art Nova 100,Beijing, China

Wang Shikuo Award­ - Tam Exhibition of Nominated Chinese Contemporary Young Artists, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2015

Ivy Art - Annual Nomination Exhibition of Chinese Young Artists, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

The 2^nd Poly Stellardemia, Time Museum, Beijing, China

Notte Bianca di Bologna, Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, Bologan, Italy

Guo Donglai did not limit himself within original or artificial or even industrial status of materials, but reconstructed new lingual and significant connections among different materials. Precisely speaking, he created a magical match with natural materials and industrial materials; They look like being ‘apart’, while actually they are “generating new product”. In this way, he discarded reification, and exposed the discussion and fusion of materials’ ‘original status’ and ‘artificial status’. The artworks of Guo Donglai presented a rather remarkable art level; they not only dissolved the trace of “human” and “me”, but reactivate isolated objects through encounter of materials. To sum up, the artist blurred out the boarder between handcraft and nature, and showed an unprecedented existence and concept through reassembling materials.-Huang Du (Curator, Art critic )