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Ms. Poon Shu
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With her young face, her large college glasses, long dark hair and her vivid eyes Poon Shu looks at first sight a bit like a funny, little school girl. But beware! This young woman is pretty smart, bright and intellectual for her age. The comic figures that she creates on canvas are not a spontaneous plaything of a yourg girl but intricately constructed art products with a maeesage and embedded in the latest Chinese art theory currently popular among China's young artist generation.

In China's contemporary art scene Poon Shu's art works are hot! In 2011 she had her first successful solo show in Beijing.

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Bunny Girl
Painting by Poon Shu
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Resume of Poon Shu

Ms. Poon Shu was born in December of 1987 in Jiang Su Province. She graduated from Nanjing Art Institute in 2008.

Currently she lives and works in Beijing. Her painting's style is typical for a new Chinese movement called 'Comics Style'. Her QQ portrait paintings on a conventional canvas are put together by small dots that are meant to imitate electronic color points on a computer screen.

The style represents young Chinese people's individual feelings of urban life and loneliness in this rapidly changing age in China. And also her paintings material is quite special. In addition to oil colors, she uses some real girl's trinkets put on her paintings.

Solo Exhibitions

2011 - 'It's Me', Art Gallery, Beijing.

Pretty Woman
Painting by Poon Shu
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Group Exhibitions

• 2008 - 'February in Early Spring Exhibition', East Art Area, Beijing.
• 2009 - Binhe Group Exhibition, Binhe Art Area , Beijing.
• 2010 - The 2nd Happening Art Festival, Sunshine Art Museum, Beijing.
• 2010 - Art Super Market, Zendai Museum Shanghai.
• 2011 - 'March in Spring - Young Artist Group Exhibition', Wan Sheng Yuan International Art Exchange Center. Beijing.
• 2011 - China Song Zhuang 'Wu Si' Youth Art Festival, Xiao Pu Yi Zhan Art Museum, Beijing.
• 2011 - Hi Art Shop, 798 Art Zone, Beijing.
• 2011 - Agglomeration China Central Mall, Beijing.
• 2011 - 'See and Smile', Contemporary Art Exhibition Sanlitun Rainbow Bridge Art Club, Beijing.
• 2011 - 80s Art Archive, Wan Sheng Yuan Art Museum, Beijing.

Single Mom
Painting by Poon Shu
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Artist's Statement

Chinese text is often hard to understand for Westerners when translated literally. I decided to transform, not translate, the artist's statement for a better understanding. I hope I got Poon Shu's message right. - Dieter

"My creation is about QQ identities (QQ is a popular Chinese software to communicate via the internet - see below). It represents the demand of today's people for ideas and fiction. It is the visualization in the web for the pop culture of masses, and also the extension of the pop and cartoon culture."

"The world of comics has replaced the daily real images of people. People's images have changed from real into the idea of fictitious electronic images. These virtual images have a tendency towards symbolization and stereotyping."

"These web images are technically composed by color dots created in a computer and displayed on a digital screen. In my works I enlarge the color points and put them on canvas. Thus I receive new images."

"In these days QQ has became the indispensable form of people's way of contact in their daily lives and has impacted people's lives, especially for the young generation."

QQ

Every youngster in China knows QQ. It is a free internet communication software with instant messaging, chats and more of what is today called social media. QQ was published by Tencent Company in 1999. In China QQ it is very popular among youngsters.

QQ users can name and choose an alias as a personalized electronic protrait. Poon Shu's paintings simulate the QQ users' aliases and pixel-like portraits.

Dieter Wanczura
January 2012

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