STRAY LAMB
THE LIVING EXHIBITION OF ZHU JIUYANG
Organizer:Sunshine International Art Museum
Curator: Guo Zhenming Jiang Jing
Founder:Tang Wenhui
Exhibition Directori Guangming Wang Zhongwen
Academic Chairmaniu Yuedi
Opening Reception:nov.13th,3:00pm
Duration:nov.13th to nov.30th,2010
Venue:Xiaopu Songzhuang Tongzhou District Beijing,China 作者: 闻正 时间: 2010-11-11 10:37
Praying and Ironical Ritualization
----On Zhu Jiuyang’s Works of Art and Divergences
in Contemporary Spiritual Art Movement of China
By Hu Jihua
Abstract: As a typical case of contemporary spiritual art of China, Zhu Jiuyang’s individual experiences of life and his works of art can embody the generally cultural crisis and the particularly religious claims of contemporary artists in China. Zhu’s understanding of the present situation of human beings and artistic vocation revealed the possible dimension of divinity in artistic productions which have been concealed in the post-Christian scenario. Through studying his works of art such as The Series of Sweet Home and The Installations of Ark, the will to God would be so strongly felt that we can grasp the destiny of modern spiritual art and its self-transformation in the contemporary cultural context of China. What the self-transformation of spiritual art says is that the accidental individual existence will become the Hermes of the spiritual by the turn of pray for the God into justification by faith, which represented through the artistic ritualization of ironic rhetoric.