Exhibition View of “Reconstructing Visions”
Themed on “Reconstructing Visions”, the group exhibition organized by Shijiazhuang Art Museum aims to explore the recreations and exploration of “visions” in current art context by presenting multiple forms of visual arts.
Exhibition View of“Reconstructing Visions”
Art has been removed from the traditional framework of representational elements and symbols since the development of Modernism. Artists have applied colors, lines, shapes and other elements to create comprehensively new cognitive models while they challenge and expand the traditional visual experience and cognitive boundaries. Creation and acceptance, creation and reproduction do not only center around artistic creations, but they are also related to multiple social topics such as science and technology, culture, education and so on.
Exhibition View of“Reconstructing Visions”
Art is no longer confined to a single cultural narrative and geographical framework with the advent of globalization and the information age, but it has more possibilities through the fusion of diverse cultures. New technologies and media have become new tools to “reconstruct horizons”. Thus artists create and display visual works in unprecedented ways, and artistic expressions and cultural cognition have also undergone new changes.
Exhibition View of“Reconstructing Visions”
In contemporary society where cultural pluralism and globalization have shifted our traditional perspectives, art as a way to challenge established aesthetic norms and perceptions can touch the cracks of these cultural perceptions. With multiple forms of contemporary visions in Shijiazhuang Art Museum, the exhibition encourages the audience to combine their own cultural background, individual experience, social cognition and other factors from different levels of personal, historical, social and global perspectives to construct diversified interpretation, and further they may reflect on the relationship between art and culture.
Exhibition View of“Reconstructing Visions”
Covering works by a total of 56 artists who are active in China and international art world, the exhibition is divided into three units: “Perceptual Reshaping”, “Cross-domain Connection” and “Encoding and Decoding”. They are respectively related to the reproduction process of cultural cognition and social history by artistic creation, the interweaving of visual experience with cultural symbols, historical background, social structure, and so on, and how artworks and different media information release can be interpreted in new ways through any individual experience.
Exhibition View of“Reconstructing Visions”
These works embody both the fresh ideas active in the field of art and new directions of exploration and presentation, making the museum a field of communication, where different creative concepts and academic views can be exchanged, and visitors from Shijiazhuang are also encouraged to observe the new phenomena of contemporary paintings. Through linking public thoughts, expanding the horizons, the exhibition brings everyone a fresh perspective to observe life and art.
About the Exhibition
Curators:
Zhang Zikang (Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Director of Ennova Art Museum)
Wang Wenling (Director of China Artists Association, Vice Chairman of Hebei Artists Association, Director of Shijiazhuang Art Museum)
Han Kunzhe (Doctor of Fine Arts, Curator)
Dates: December 29, 2024 - March 25, 2025
Venue: Shijiazhuang Art Museum and Academy
Artists: Bernard Piffaretti, Cheyney Thompson, Chen Wencun, Chen Yongjin, Daniel Domig, Dai Zhou, Ding Yi, Enrico Bach, Francisco Rodríguez, Georg Baselitz, Geng Yini, Gillian Ayres, He Jinwei, He Wei, Jian Ce, Jin Rilong, John McLean, Kang Haitao, Li Baoxun, Li Di, Li Jikai, Liao Jianhua, Liu Gangshun, Ma Shengzhe, Ma Ke, Mao Xuhui, Ni Jun, Oliver Lee Jackson, Peng Pi, Qin Jun, Qiu Zhijie, Ren Yichun, Roy Colmer, Serse, Shao Yinong, She Xiaojuan, Song Kun, Su Xinping, Tan Ping, Tong Kunniao, Tony Bechara, Von Wolfe, Wang Zhongjie, Wu Jian'an, Wu Xiaohai, Xiang Guohua, Yin Chaoyang, Yin Qi, Yuan Zuo, Zhang Dan, Zhang Enli, Zhang Fangbai, Zhang Zhenyu, Zhao Gang, Zhao Yang, Zhu Yancun
Courtesy (CN) of Shijiazhuang Art Museum and Academy, edited (EN) by CAFA ART INFO.
