Temperament of Detail
dal 2/12/2007 al 30/1/2008
Segnalato da
2/12/2007
Temperament of Detail
The Red Mansion Foundation, London
Hu Liu, Wang Luyan, Wang Wei, Wu Xiaojun. All the artists and their works indicate a new direction of development in the practice of contemporary art in China, which is that their artistic concepts and practice depart from and evolve around some of the most fundamental aspects of art-making. Curated by Carol Lu & Liu Ding.
curated by Carol Lu & Liu Ding
The Red Mansion Foundation is pleased to present our second show at 46
Portland Place after the greatly successful opening show in September
this year. The Foundation will be inviting Carol Lu and Liu Ding to give
the British audience an opportunity to see a very different perspective
of contemporary Chinese art via this group show that will feature the
work of five artists. All the artists and their works indicate a new
direction of development in the practice of contemporary art in China,
which is that their artistic concepts and practice depart from and
evolve around some of the most fundamental aspects of art-making.
The artists that will be participating in the show are Hu Liu, Wang
Luyan, Wang Wei, and Wu Xiaojun. Hu Liu works through a painstakingly
slow and meticulous process of drawing in charcoal to form works with a
powerful visual impact. In Wang Luyan's work his attention to mechanical
detail and the manipulation and alteration of mechanical detail changes
the nature of an object radically. Having examined the exhibition space
Wang Wei will create a site specific scaffolding structure which will
intervene and interacts with the space. Wu Xiaojun's work starts with a
social and moral concept of conscience, which is then translated into a
visual spectacle. These works are markedly distinguished from the usual
genre of contemporary Chinese art, which either thrives on a certain
ideological purpose or is set out to overthrow or reverse any existing
art system mechanism.
The Red Mansion Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation, which
promotes artistic exchange between China and the Great Britain through a
programme of lectures, exhibitions, The Red Mansion Art Prize and
Building Bridges, an exchange pogramme for established Artists. The Red
Mansion Foundation is co-producer and co-sponsor of a series of
exhibitions entitled China Power Station, held at Battersea Power
Station, Oslo and Beijing, The Real Thing at Tate Liverpool, the Chinese
Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale and the 10th Istanbul Biennale in
2007.
Image: Hu Liu
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