PICTORIAL DNA made in China
Ding Yi – Li Songsong – Li Yongbin – Liu Wei – Meng Huang
Qiu Shihua – Wang Xingwei – Xie Nanxing – Yan Lei
co-curated by Nataline Colonnello
Opening: Friday 3rd June, 7 p.m.
4th June – 14th July, 2005
PICTORIAL DNA made in China
Due to a cultural/philosophical tradition based on the representation of the world by means of images, throughout the whole art history of China painting has always held a weighty position among the visual arts, so much as to become, since its invention, even a fundamental part of the written language (see the Chinese ideograms).
Already completely free from the copy of the models set by the Chinese classical masters, from the acquisition of technical and theoretical knowledge about Western art, from the imposition of an iconography in the style of Social Realism, from open contrasts with the government politics and from the need to react to them, with the second half of the Nineties the Chinese contemporary art scene has experienced the progressive, almost complete break-up of all the art groups and the end of the pictorial currents.
The unprecedented linguistic differentiation which followed has led to very individual and sometimes outstanding positions as in the case of the nine artists taking part in the exhibition Pictorial DNA made in China (curated by Nataline Colonnello and Urs Meile), who were selected according to the conceptual solidity, masterly skill, experimental unconventionality and stylistic distinctiveness hallmarking their high quality paintings like a genetic code.
Please find more information at http://www.galerie-meile.ch/th1.htm
CAAW/Galerie Urs Meile at Art 36 Basel Hall 2.1 Stand Q1
Ai Weiwei – Ding Yi – Li Songsong – Meng Huang – Qiu Shihua
Wang Xingwei – Xie Nanxing – Yan Lei
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