he xiangyu
He Xiangyu He Xiangyu (Chinese: 何翔宇; born 1986) is a Chinese contemporary artist based in Berlin and Beijing. Background He Xiangyu graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Shenyang Normal University in 2008 with a bachelor's degree. His work has been featured in group exhibitions and public collections worldwide. He was a finalist in the 2014 “Future Generation Art Prize”, a price founded by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine. Artwork His art is centered on investigating and engaging with the operating mechanisms and structural relationships of current social systems. He…
The Subject Atlas
A chart of he xiangyu's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.