Exhibition on the Table: Li Hanwei
Duration: 2019 February 16 – March 16
Venue: 2F CREATER SPACE, No.888 Huashan Road, Shanghai
Presenting:
Tasty System: Steps of Making Pancakes Heavy Weapons, 2018
4k CG animation film (with sound), 5’10’’
Tasty System: Hotpot, 2018
4k CG animation film (with sound), 1’31’’
In the occasion of Li Hanwei’s online screening, Arthub presents the video installation with the same name in our space.
About the artwork
Tasty System: Steps of Making Pancakes Heavy Weapons
The Tasty System, which evolved from “Liquid Health”, continues the previous ways of advertised presentation from Chinese shanzhai (aka copycat) culture, and the film mimics the teaching video of cooking on the web. In the “Rolled Pancake” production line of Tasty Systems, Zombies, as an employee of the pancake factory, introduced the production process of the pancake factory to the audience. During the production process, “food” will express a kind of confrontation, which is produced in frying, deep-frying, boiling and stir-frying.
Tasty System: Hotpot
In the film, the cultural relics of Chinese civilization are thrown from the sky and fallen into the giant hot pot. The bright and clean 4k CG image presents the Sichuan unique hotpot cookware filled with marketplace atmosphere, stirring and mixing with the explosion caused by the process. Here, the workartist presents a state of confrontation and integration. The sci-fi urban scene is a metaphor for contemporary China. In the intensive and high-speed construction, the distinction between the so-called marketplacecivil and elite culture seems to be weakening and becoming sharp at the same time.
About artist
Li Hanwei, born in Jiangsu in 1994, graduated from the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts in 2018 and currently lives and works in Shanghai. In 2017, Li Hanwei founded the Slim Engine online contemporary art space and co-operated with Liu Shuzhen and Fang Yang as a curator. He usually adopts metaphors in the form of commercial advertising and movies, using image effects to build a worldview in a world in which people get along and solve problems through art. Using this as a starting point, the artist has created different brands and companies to show the intersection of today’s cultural forms and identities.
