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Hiding in the City, Liu Bolin, courtesy of artist's blog
The current exhibit “The Big World: Recent art from China” featuring works from over twenty-one contemporary individual and collaborating artists pushes boundaries and explores social contexts from new angles. China… “a big world unto itself” has its share of world famous artists. This exhibit, in contrast, features the curators selections from art academies, museums, galleries, some key biennials and triennials, the second SHContemporary fair in Shanghai, and artist’s studios. This project is unusual for the engaging directly with most of the artists involved, focusing on various media by twenty-two artists most of whom live and work in China today.
Featuring fifty works by artists that take advantage of increased resources to experiment artistically, there are three sub-texts which organize this ambitious show. Providing a loose frame work for interpretation, these subtexts are The New Cities, The Human Metamorphosis, and Deconstructing the Social Collective. Coordinated by the efforts of co-curators Gregory G. Knight and Tereza de Arruda, with the assistance of Bejing based collector and gallerist, Mr. Li Guosheng, the exhibit runs through August 30th, 2009, with a gallery talk scheduled for August 20th.
Artists include: Ai Weiwei, Bu Hua, Chen Bo, Jin Shi, Liu Bolin, Liu Ding, Liu Wei, Ma Jiawei, Qui Xiaofei, Rong Rong & inri, Shi Yong, Wang Chengyun, Wang Qingsong, Wang Wei, Xiong Yu, Yin Xiuzhen, Yin Zhaoyang, Zhao Liang, Zhou Tao, Zhou Wenzhong, and Zhou Yi.
The Big World is located in the Chicago Cultural Center’s Exhibit Hall and Yates Gallery, at 78 East Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois. For more information: www.chicagoculturalcenter.org
or egov.cityofchicago.org/city/webportal/portalContentItemAction.do
For Liu Bolin's blog chngyaohong.com/blog/contemporary/liu-bolin/
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