Contents

Foreword (Francesco Paolo Campione)

Rabbits: Before, During, and After

Foreword (Lü Peng)

A Rabbit’s Tale: The Art of Chen Xi

Artist Statement   (Chen Xi)

Rabbit on the Run

Part 1:A Rabbit's Tale—The Art of Chen Xi

1\ The Everyday(Life in the 1990s)

2\ The Queen’s New Clothes

3\ Object Language

4\ Rabbit on the Run

5\ Seeing the Great in the Small

6\ The Lace Paintings

7\ No Island Ever Stands Alone

Part 2:Artist Solo Exhibition History

1、1991, Chen Xi and Liu Gang’s Solo exhibition, CAFA ART Gallery, Beijing

[Critical Essay]

Pan Lusheng: The Maxims of the Purifier: Thoughts on Reading the Paintings of Liu Gang and Chen Xi

2、1997, Chen Xi Oil Painting Works (1987—1997), Bei Jing   International Art Palace, Beijing

[Critical Essay]

Wen Lipeng: The Generation of Hope

Yi Ying: The Post-New Generation and Chen Xi's Painting

3、2007, Be Fickle in Affection, Soo Bin Art Int’l Singapore,Singapore

[Critical Essay]

Chua Soo Bin: Naïve Chen Xi

[Artist Statement]

4、2007, The Queen’s New Clothes, Xin Beijing Art Gallery, Beijing

[Critical Essay]

Wang Min’an: The naked body, foam and the destructive power of time

5、2011, Be Memorized, National Art Museum of China,Beijing

[Critical Essay]

Jeff Kelley: Chen Xi’s History Paintings

Su Kewen: Being Remembered

Wang Huangsheng: Memory in Ritual Practice

Yang Xiaoyan: Freedom and Escape   -Artist Chen Xi’s Dual Circumstances and Contradictory Options

[Artist Statement]

6、2016, Chen Xi: So We Remember, University Museum and Art Gallery, HKU, Hong Kong

[Critical Essay]

Chen Angie: Multiple Meanings of Chen Xi: So We Remember

Florian Knothe: Chen Xi’s Be Memorized: Contemporary History Painting in Modern-day China

Wu Sarah:  From Asia Television (ATV) to Chen Xi’s So We Remember

7、2018, Rabbit on The Run, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing

[Critical Essay]

Lü Peng: The Form of Time: Chen Xi’s Artistic Trajectory

Du Xiyun: Expanding the Tension of Life—Chen Xi’s Puppet Visions

Ju Baiyu: Chen Xi—Rabbit, Run, Run to a Land of Dignity

Jia Fangzhou: Escaping Freely: Chen Xi's Four Steps Toward the Contemporary

Yin Ji: Flesh in the Dark

[Artist Statement]

8、2021, Chen Xi: Beyond The Rules (1990-2020),Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou

[Critical Essay]

Wang Chunchen: Chen Xi: Beyond the Rules—An Artist Experiencing a Changing China

[Artist Statement]

Biography

Index