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Playing with space and dimensionality

Cui Jie is a Chinese artist who specializes in oil painting and 3-D printed sculpture. Cui's body of work is largely characterized by her play with space and dimensionality, which take shape in her geometric imaginings of Chinese cityscapes.  Cui Jie (Chinese language: 崔洁) is a Chinese artist who specializes in oil painting and 3-D printed sculpture. Cui's body of work is largely characterized by her play with space and dimensionality, which take shape in her geometric imaginings of Chinese cityscapes. The most common subjects of her works are models of Chinese cultural landmarks of the 1980s and 1990s, such as Shanghai Bank Tower, which are either already or soon-to-be demolished.These towering structures are often surrounded by organic, swirling shapes to place them in a constant state of motion and transition, yet a 'sinofuturistic' context which both revives and reinvents their initial purposes.
Cui Jie was born in 1983, in Shanghai, China. In 2006, she graduated from China Academy of Art Oil Painting Department. She currently lives and works in Beijing, China. Cui Jie is represented by LEO XU PROJECTS and Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin. Cui Jie is described by The Wall Street Journal as one of the youngest “China’s Rising Art Stars.”She has been named one of Phaidon Press’s leading painters in its publication, Vitamin P3,[4] and she is profiled in the December/January 2015 issue of Surface Magazine. Cui’s early works questioned the truth in reality through the unconventional combination of images on canvas, a multi-perspective approach which she associates with Orson Welles. Later, in groups of new paintings, she shifted her style from the previous one to the study of forms and figure-ground relationship. In these paintings, she pays much attention to and magnifies the architectural details of structures, buildings and landscape, using the idea of fragments and layers so as to convey a sense of alienation. To reach their dream-like state, her scenes employ huoshaoyun (literally, ‘fire clouds’) and similar non-naturalistic environments, fusing both time and space.
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