ChART Contemporary Collaborates with Du Yi for Open House: Royal Pond, a Series of Curatorial Experiments Reflecting Our Mission of Bringing Together Art and People. Join us on June 21, 2009, from 3:00 – 7:00 p.m. and experience a new site-specific installation created by Du Yi and curated by ChART Contemporary. Royal Pond is a visual narrative created from sound and graffiti-inspired painting techniques. The fable illustrates the story of the “common people” and takes class struggle as a point of departure to reflect the erosion of the middle class and plight of the working class in modern China. Combining personal narrative with his observations of how working class families and “common people” live, Du Yi draws us into an “underwater world” where reality is bleak for a mother and son who cannot escape their fate as they sink into the abyss. In pre-Confucian China, the feudal system divided the population into 6 classes: 4 noble classes with the king at the top, followed by the dukes, then the great men and finally the scholars. Below the noble classes were commoners and slaves. Today commoners and slaves are synonymous with the working-class, and are being pushed and consumed by society. Royal Pond is a fairytale turned nightmare that contemplates social stratification and the lack of social mobility for the working class. Du Yi (b. 1984) is an emerging artist based in Wuhan and a founding member of Chirp--one of the earliest artist collectives in China to combine public art with graffiti. Since 2008, this young artist has expanded his practice combining painting with sound and video installation and in 2010 he joined the IDT crew, a graffiti collective based in Beijing. Open House: Royal Pond was his first solo exhibition. For more information please contact: www.chartcontemporary.com 样板间：皇家池塘 ChART Contemporary与杜翌携手合作，共同举办《样板间：皇家池塘》，这是一系列策展实验活动，反映了我们连接人与艺术的一贯宗旨。2009年6月21日下午3时至7时，欢迎加入我们，一起体验由ChART Comtemporary策划、杜翌最新创作的特定场所装置作品。 《皇家池塘》是一部以声音和涂鸦绘画技术相结合创作的视觉叙事。这一寓言讲述了“普通大众”的故事，并以阶级斗争作为起点，反映了中产阶级的腐朽和现代中国工人阶级的困境。 将个人叙事同对于工人阶级家庭和“普通大众”生存状况的观察相结合，杜翌带领我们进入了一个“水下世界”，一个对于无法逃避沉入最低层命运的母子而言严峻而冷漠的现实。 在儒家思想之前的中国，封建体制将人口划分成六个不同等级，以帝王为首的四个贵族阶级，和布衣、奴隶这两个下层阶级。今天的工人阶级与当时的下层阶级拥有类似之处，都在社会底部挣扎着。“皇家池塘”是一则转为梦魇的童话，审视了社会低层以及工人阶级社会流动性的缺乏。 杜翌（生于1984年）是一位来自武汉的年轻艺术家，“奇葩”的主创人之一。“奇葩”是中国最早将公共艺术与涂鸦结合为一体的艺术实验团体。2008年以来，杜翌扩大了他的实验领域，将绘画，声音以及影像装置结合为一体。2010年在北京加入了IDT 涂鸦一族 《样板间：皇家池塘》是他的首次个展。