We are from the Century – The result of Jia Aili ‘s hibernation

Author : Lucille Enel
Published on : April 13, 2009 | Last modified on : September 3rd, 2015 at 7:41 am

We are from the Century, oil painting, 6m x 15m, 2009

Since last November, Jia Aili has been working in the gallery’s space opened to the public to create a large scale painting measuring 6 m by 15 m. At the end of his “hibernation” (the name Jia Aili gave to the project), the artist displayed the final artwork “We are from the Century”, some sketches, small size paintings and two videos recording the creative process in the gallery space installed as his studio for a 6 months period through the winter time.

To see more images of the creative process of the large scale painting I invite you to check the project’s website: www.20081411.net

We are from the Century (details) 2009

“The HIbernation’, where what’s displayed in the gallery space is the creative process itself. As the artist says “What usually blocks people from art is perhaps the artwork itself”. You will get to see the gradual birth of that artwork which he names ” We are from the century”. On that barren land lies youth in its full indulgence, carrying the beginning and the end of the centuries’ passion and dejection, while all pain is forgotten, hope lost, and morals questioned, with nothing but that almost paranoid pursuit towards drawing… all the way tot he very deep of desolation. Unfinished scenes, night after night, record that crawling… from winter to Spring.