© White Cube Mason's Yard
Refrain | 復沓
22 May 2026 — 27 June 2026
Ending SoonBeijing-based Shao Fan presents meditative ink paintings on xuan rice paper, exploring Daoist philosophy, temporal passage, and the fluid boundaries between human, animal, and landscape.
From White Cube Mason's Yard
Shao Fan's oeuvre is overrun with rabbits. They first appeared in his paintings around 2009 and have continued to resurface ever since: solemn, watchful and strange. Enlarged to near-human proportions, they face the viewer head-on, sitting upright with the ceremonial frontality of Chinese ancestral portraits. Soft ears raised, dark eyes almost at level with our own. In the earliest of these paintings, the rabbits were more figurative and detailed, fleshed out in muted hues of acrylic and oil....
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© White Cube Mason's Yard
Refrain | 復沓
22 May 2026 — 27 June 2026
Ending SoonBeijing-based Shao Fan presents meditative ink paintings on xuan rice paper, exploring Daoist philosophy, temporal passage, and the fluid boundaries between human, animal, and landscape.
From White Cube Mason's Yard
Shao Fan's oeuvre is overrun with rabbits. They first appeared in his paintings around 2009 and have continued to resurface ever since: solemn, watchful and strange. Enlarged to near-human proportions, they face the viewer head-on, sitting upright with the ceremonial frontality of Chinese ancestral portraits. Soft ears raised, dark eyes almost at level with our own. In the earliest of these paintings, the rabbits were more figurative and detailed, fleshed out in muted hues of acrylic and oil....
Read more at White Cube Mason's Yard →Critic Reviews
No reviews yet for this exhibition.
Visit
Mason's Yard, London·View on artmap
SundayClosed
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am–6pm
Wednesday10am–6pm
Thursday10am–6pm
Friday10am–6pm
Saturday10am–6pm