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21/12/2005

Fusion

MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum, Leon

Aspects of Asian Culture in the Musac Collection

Among the five exhibitions that close the 2005 program of the Museo de Arte Contempora'neo de Castilla y Leon is the collective show, FUSION: Aspects of AsianCulture intheMUSAC Colection. This exhibition aims to establish a dialogue between two worlds—the East and the West—that since the onset of civilization have been visibly separated at the same time that they have maintained a continuous symbiotic relationship of influences, especially in the artistic field. Fourteen artists, six Japanese, two Chinese, two Koreans, two Europeans, one South African and one South American will speak to us of encounters and disencounters, appropriations and influences of these two civilizations in the era of globalization. The Museo de Arte Contempora'neo de Castilla y Leo'n is an initiative of the Junta de Castilla y Leon.

Curators: Agusti'n Pe'rez Rubio and Kristine Guzma'n; Coordinator: Blanca de la Torre

Artists: Candice Breitz, Alicia Framis, Yang Fudong, Zhang Huan, Pierre Huyghe, Kaoru Katayama, Kimsooja, Yasumasa Morimura, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Motohiko Odani, Hiraki Sawa, Do-Ho Suh, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Tabaimo

The spectator will find themselves before works of Asian artists who interpret their own reality, together with works of western artists who have taken or experienced different aspects of Asian culture. In some occasions the approach of western artists to Asian culture have been first-hand, although in most cases, have been influenced by the over-abundance of existing cliche's with respect to this subject. Furthermore, the way Asian artists bet in most occasions on the idea of fusion, of union and redefinition of contemporary living in all aspects: cultural, artistic and vital—in the framework of globalization—can be appreciated.

This exhibition—FUSION—represents an approach to the MUSAC Collection through some 20 works and invites the spectator to experience, understand, face and, in some occasions, participate in an interactive manner in the different modes of expression concerning Asian culture.

From that which is proper to that which is appropriated
Starting from the difficulty that supposes the framing of concepts of such vague limits such as east and west without falling into certain relativism, and facing the risk that is implied, the exhibition intends to show different ways of looking at Asian culture: an internal gaze--from the very people who live this culture--towards themselves and towards the outer world; and an external gaze--from those foreign to it--towards the inner world. These are perspectives that represent that which is proper and that which is appropriated. These are perspectives that allow represent that which is proper and that which is appropriated, all of these understood under a “glocal" point of view.

In this way, the purity of traditions and cultural hybridity as representative elements, we are led to such global questions such as identity, cultural roots and knowledge of the other. This discourse allows us to deal with the same concerns from different optics that, although considered antithetic at start, shows us distinct stands that simply respond to different modes of facing the same reality.

Moreover, the level of reciprocal influences that one culture has exerted on the other will be studied, and to which extent this leaves its mark in the works of particular artists and how it goes unnoticed in most cases. All of these are placed within the context of a prevailing globalization in which the means of communication play a role whose outcome is a direct impact on what we may call a “democratization of culture". Living in an age in which the physical frontiers between different countries are erased, this brings about a consequent elimination of cultural barriers, in a continuous exchange of traditions and ideas that contribute to a hybrid and multicultural world.

Works in Fusion:

Candice Breitz, Aiwa to Zen, 2003, Video installation, 11'30''

Alicia Framis, Remix Buildings-Bloodsushibank, 2000, Installation, 400 x 240 x 400 cm, Unique

Yang Fudong, Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest. Part I, 2003, 35 mm film B/N transferred onto DVD, sound, 29'30''

Zhang Huan, To add one meter to an anonymous mountain, 1995, Color photograph, 67,5 x 100 cm

To raise the level of water in a fish pond (middle view), 1997, Color photograph, 100 x 150 cm

Twelve square meters, 1994, Color photograph, 150 x 100 cm

Pierre Huyghe, One Million Kingdoms, 2001, Video installation, 6'

Kaoru Katayama, Technocharro, 2004, Video projection, color, sound, 300 x 400 cm, 5'35''

Kimsooja, A Laundry Woman-Yamuna River, India, 2000, Video installation; 10’ 30" loop

Yasumasa Morimura, Dialogue with Myself 3, 2001, Video installation; 62’

Skull Ring, 2001, Color photograph on canvas, 150 x 120 cm

Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Memorial Project Minamata:, Neither Either nor Neither-A Love Story, 2002-2004, Video installation, 16’

Motohiko Odani, Rompers, 2003, Video installation; 2’ 52" loop

Hiraki Sawa, Dwelling, 2002; DVD B/W, sound, 8’ 15"

Untitled (Plane Portfolio), 2003, 5 B/W photographs, 50,48 x 60,96 cm

Eight Minutes, 2005,, Video, B/N, 8’

Do-Ho Suh, 348 West 22nd St. Apt. A, New York, NY 10011 (corridor), 2001, Installacio'n of translucent nylon 245 x 168 x 1240 cm.

Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled, 1999 (Caravan), 1999, Installation, 272 x 760 x 293 cm

Tabaimo, Hanabi-ra, 2003, Vi'deo, 5'

Image: Do-Ho-Suh

Opening: December 22

Musac - Exhibition Halls 1 and 3
Avda. de los Reyes Leoneses, 24 - Leon

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