Amy Li Gallery, Beijing is presenting French contemporary visual artist Pierrick Sorin’s “A Very fulfilled life 1992－2017,” a retrospective exhibition. Pierrick Sorin’s retrospective will present a total of nineteen works, created between 1992 and 2017. An important figure in video arts scene, Sorin is well-known for his optical theaters in which the artist usually appears as a hologram figure among realistic decorations. The exhibition will present his hologram-installation “the Aquatic choreography,” where the artist is dancing among real fish. Large-scale site specific creation “A very full life,” which is the first creation dated back to 1999, will also be presented. This work marks a very meaningful turning point of the artist’s career.Since 2013, artist started to apply 3D images in his works. He has been known world-widely when he began to make short films of himself, alone, at the very beginning of his career in the late 80s. Many art critics at that time considered him as the pioneer of the trend which has become very common and popular nowadays on the internet. His elegant sense of humor, his meticulous elaboration of the work’s composition and plot, and his brave and unlimited self-reflexive sarcasm has gained him a lot of attentions from experts as well as audience that is most-alienated from the art worldThis exhibition runs through September 17, 2017 at No.54 Caochangdi (old airport road), Chaoyang District, Beijing 100015, China.For details, visit: www.amyligallery.comClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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