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Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World
Chen Shaoxiong 5 Hours, 1993/2006 DSL Collection View of the performance: The Third Artistic Event of the Big Tail Elephant Working Group, outside Red Ant Bar, Guangzhou, November 24, 1993 © Chen Shaoxiong Photo courtesy of the artist
may
11–september 23, 2018
galleries : second floor
curators: alexandra munroe, philip tinari, hou hanru
Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World presents the creations of a bold contemporary art movement born during the most transformative period in modern Chinese and recent world history. Organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Art and China after 1989 features works by 71 key artists and groups active in China and internationally, whose provocations aim to forge a reality free from ideology, to reinforce the role of the individual apart from the collective, and to define contemporary Chinese experience in universal terms. Bracketed by the end of the Cold War in 1989 and the Beijing Olympics in 2008, the exhibition surveys the culture of artistic experimentation in a period marked by the onset of globalization and the rise of a newly powerful China on the world stage. The exhibition’s subtitle, Theater of the World, comes from an installation by Paris-based artist Huang Yong Ping, originally presented in Stuttgart in 1993. This cage-like structure housing different species of insects and reptiles is an apt metaphor for the age of globalization, drawing on Chinese cosmology, Western Enlightenment ideas of the panopticon as a structure of control, and Michael Foucault’s critique of modernism.
PRIZE DRAW FOR 25 DOUBLE INVITATIONS TO THE OPENING Log in at www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en/community to find out if you are one of the 25 Museum members who will be mailed a double invitation to attend the opening night the exhibition.
PANEL DISCUSSION: ART AND CHINA AFTER 1989 wednesday , may
9, 7 pm Discussion featuring artists in the exhibition Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, such as Zhang Peili, Huang Yong Ping, and Shen Yuan, and the show’s curatorial team, led by Alexandra Munroe in collaboration with Philip Tinari, Hou Hanru, and Xiaorui Zhu-Nowell. venue :
Auditorium free, available at the Admissions desk and on the website. Simultaneous interpretation into Spanish available
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