STORY

PAINTING, MAPPING – COGNITIVE PATHWAYS FOR CHINESE CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS

August 30 – September 2, 2018

Organizer
Beijing Contemporary Art Expo

Curator
Bao Dong

Location
Beijing National Agricultural Exhibition Center

POST-REALISM

An important clue in contemporary Chinese painting is the separation, transformation and reconstruction of realism that once occupied absolute orthodoxy and mainstream status. Various factors of realism, from concepts, aesthetics, techniques, and fun, are still Today’s paintings play a role, but they have been dismantled and reorganized into new contexts and methods.

Artist：Liu Xiaodong、Liu Ye 、Mao Yan、Li Songsong、Liu Xiaohui、Guo Hongwei、Song Yuanyuan、Yan Bing、Qin Qi、Wang Yuping、Gong Jian、Wei Jia

ANTI-TASTE

The taste is not natural, but the result of history, culture, and discourse. Therefore, the taste is always the starting point and practice of art. Reflections and rebellions on established tastes have different aims for different painters, but in the end they all have a strong personal style. In this “Interesting Dialectics”, the creative transformation of contemporary Chinese painting’s personality conception of modernism is included, and it also continues the “defense of literary field” in ancient China.

Artist：Geng Yini、XU ZHEN®、Chen Fei、Wong Ping、Liao Guohe、Zheng Haozhong、Tang Dixin、Zhou Siwei、Duan Jianyu、Wang Wei、Lou Shenyi

META-PAINTING

Meta-painting is a painting about painting and painting after painting. In China’s complex and profound historical context, meta-painting not only has a strong tendency of theoretical contemplation, but also sorts out its own unique experience, so that we can Liberate painting from the linear and homogeneous concept of time and return to it. The basic cognitive framework behind painting and the conscious awareness of the conditions for its formation.

Artist：Ji Dachun、Xie Nanxing、Wang Yin、Tang Dayao、Zhang Hui、Wang Xingwei、Qie Xiaofeng、Ce Jian、Tang Yongxing、Liang Yuanwei、Xu Xiaoguo、He Xun、Yang Maoyuan、Liang Wei、Wang Jun、Wang Haiyang

TRANS-TRADITION

An important clue in contemporary Chinese painting is the separation, transformation and reconstruction of realism that once occupied absolute orthodoxy and mainstream status. Various factors of realism, from concepts, aesthetics, techniques, and fun, are still Today’s paintings play a role, but they have been dismantled and reorganized into new contexts and methods.

Artist：Yang Jiechang、Xu Lei、Hao Liang、JIAN JI’AN、Liang Shuo、Chen Yujun、Bian Qing 、Shi Zhiying、Zhang Enli

ABSTRACT FIELD

Modernist traditions from the West did not really bear fruit in China, but they brought us the concept of “abstraction”. China’s abstract art is not a concept-building doctrine, but a style of work results. Under the abstract appearance, different artists pay attention to and present different issues, including materials, physical properties, bodies, space, perceptions, methods, procedures, time, and what constitutes art, thus forming an interlaced field.

Artist：Guan Yinfu、Liang Quan、Wang Guangle、Xue Feng、Ma Shuqing、Liu Wei、Yang Shu、Xie Molin、Li Shurui、Chen Wenji、Dong Dawei、Liang Manqi