Artist Cai Zebin Collector Edition Jigsaw Puzzle
b. 1988 in Guangdong Province, China. Lives and works in Shantou, China.
Title: Breeze
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Jigsaw Puzzle Size: 500-piece custom-made puzzle 19" Square, (Horizontal) 19"x19" (483mm×483mm) 500 Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces, ESKA Premium Board. FSC 100% Recycled Paper. Gloss Finish.
This Collector Edition arrives Pre-Assembled Option and separated onto 2 cardboard squares. The AXP Collector Editions comes ready to slide together for a complete instant puzzle and/or to be broken down for puzzling fun and/or framing!
Collector Edition of 20 + 2AP
Level: Challenging
Signature Details: Original Artwork: Breeze #2 微风 2, 155 x 167 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2019
Credits: Courtesy of Cai Zebin and Capsule Shanghai, Special thanks to X Museum, Beijing
The inspiration for this work comes from a work by Henri Rousseau, The Wedding Party (1905). In particular, the wedding dress of the bride in Rousseau's work feels light as if it is floating in the middle of the image. Cai first created a smaller painting of a face mask floating in the woods (Breeze, 2019). This painting then led him to create a larger version of it. As he was painting this image, he also thought of Manet’s painting, A Bar at le Folies-Bergère (1882). He intended to create a foreground in the form of a sink in front of a mirror image of a large face mask object. The experience of looking at this painting is like looking at a mirror as if the events occur behind the viewer. There is a spatial relationship between Breeze #2 (2019) and the outdoor face mask installation behind the viewer. Cai painted the feeling of wind in the movement of the face mask and its environment. Chinese Version: Click Here
Megan Connolly Curator Choice Capsule Collection
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Artist Certificate: Each puzzle comes with an artist certificate.
Biography: Cai Zebin (b. 1988) is a visual artist based in Shantou, Guangdong province in Southern China. He graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2012.
The often whimsical and fantastic scenes in Cai Zebin's paintings draw inspiration from his extensive knowledge of art history and literature, reinterpreting existing motifs and devices to evaluate the process of painting and, ultimately, making art.
Selected solo includes: A Revisit at 2 bis rue Perrel, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China (2020), Laval, Paris Internationale, Paris, France (2019), The Defense, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China (2018); Olive, NUOART Gallery, Beijing, China (2015). He has participated in the following group shows: Metaphorical Reality, Almine Rech, Shanghai, China (2020); Exhibition of Young Power, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (2020); Night Tour of the Pearl River, Guangdong Museumof Art, Guangzhou, China (2019); City Unbounded, Jing'an Sculpture Park, Shanghai, China (2018); The Latch, That Obscure Object of Portrait, C-Space+Local, Beijing, China (2017); "□", A+ Contemporary, Taipei, Taiwan (2016); Hinterland Project, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China (2015). Cai Zebin's work was featured on Artforum, Leap, Artshard, Art Frontier, ArtAsiaPacific, and Contemporary Art Daily.
ARTIST CHARITY CHOICE: Foundation of Contemporary Art
