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Chinese Art Today
Curated by Francesca Jordan & Primo
Marella
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In recent years Chinese artists seem to have been stereotyped
by the media at home and abroad as shock-mongers who make art that
is either political or violent and bloody. This is far from the truth;
in fact the majority of artists are going about their creative work
in a way that is both more individualized and more globalized. Rather
than movements defined by shared themes and subject matter, critics
now comment on the rise from experimental to popular of newer forms
such as conceptual photography and video installation, on the increasing
use of digital technologies and the influence and inspiration provided
by the Internet.
The artists in Chinese Art Today reveal an acute sensitivity to the
world around them; they deal with immediately relevant subject matter,
conflating the personal and the political, exploring the dichotomies
opened up in Chinese society by rapid urbanization, giving individual
interpretations to a wide range of issues such as identity, sexuality,
privacy, and self-creation that are by no means unique to the experience
of living in China, but are endemic to human society, and particularly
urban societies at a certain stage of development.
Artists:
Yang
Fudong
Chen Lingyang
Ma Liuming
Liu Jin
Wang Qingsong
Li Wei
Huang Yang
Wang Xingwei
Cui Xiuwen
Yang Zhenzhong
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