Blind Date
To Chinese, "Blind date" means "to date with a stranger". In other words, it means the date between people who have never seen each other. This exhibition puts six artists from China and Germany together for a contrast and comparison of their works styles and cultures. The exhibition will team artists to express themselves. The result will be a special environment showing a multinational teams "works".
It is understood that, "Chinese and German artists are not familiar with each other';s art style". To make this exhibition more enjoyable, the organizer uses a new way to understand and share art. The works in this exhibition will be presented through multimedia interactions. The visual effect, which is built in the format of "blind date", will be an unusual culture dialogue between Chinese and Germany artists. There will most certainly be some "deep cultural discussions". The artists will keep their personal opinions to themselves and "talk art" only. This should result in a "most memorable experience" for all.
The "Fortress and Eggs Plan" is the works by the Chinese artist Wong Peijun. From the name, it seems that there isn';t any relation among fragile eggs, tough weapon and firm building. But the artist combines these totally different elements well. This combination of combative and fragile natures is not "to tease you", but to present the serious concern about whether the world we are living in, is as strong as it looks.
But the work by the German artist Carsten Gliese, named "boxes", presents a dialogue among pictures, buildings, sculpture and space. The connection between real 3D space world and 2D space of pictures presents us with an unreal carpet phantom, projecting on white ground, the road side cornerstone and encircled lawn. The secret light shot can make the whole space full of mystery.
Huang Xuebin produces "thousands of feet rays" with the night vision technical photography. There is only a lonely girl in his former works. Now, he adds a spaceman to present us a dreamland in which there are lonely girl, spaceman, pictures and an empty avenue.
Guo Shujun produces "Shopping Mall" with wide- angle photography. A space which seems (to be) busy and crowded discloses a kind of inexplicable loneliness and emptiness.
Next, the "Fashion Man" from Xie Xianwen. What are the most up-to-date topics? Super girl? Social insurance? Kids education? All of these questions may be answered by a cartoon toy. Money, brand, and idol present the uncertainty of our society and Chinese culture may be going nowhere under all these kinds of entertainments. What should we do to protect our culture? What should we pursue?
In the work "What happened to the planes?" of Wang Xiaofei, 2000 small planes line up and start the formation change in the picture. In a short while, a slogan comes up. But a huge plane follows up closely. The Airplane hides the combative nature, but appears with a irrelevant slogan which says "what happened to the planes?" . The small planes lining up look like an airplane game in the earliest PC Game. But they present a kind of stressful feeling through the massive stacks. Is that weapon or game?
"The aviation high speed Yacht on the Pacific Ocean " of Anja Jensen is about a container which is checked with X ray. The X ray shows us every detail inside (of) the box. How about the privacy of our society? No privacy! Anything under the X ray is no longer mysterious.
The artists are the representation of their respective cultures. "Blind Date" not only shows the real situation of the global communication environment, but the relationship among the different cultures in the international art world. The exhibition will display an interesting and meaningful dialogue through the "blind date" of the two artists from the two countries. This exhibit wants the artists and audience to exchange, share and appreciate all the thoughts that can make art a "truly international language".
Blind Date Sino German Exhibition of Contemporary Art
China : Guo Shujun, Huang Xuebin, Liu Jun, Wang Xiaofei, Weng Penjun, Xie Xianwen
Germany: Maik Löbbert, Dirk Löbbert, Heike Pawelzik, Wiebke Bartsch, Anja Jensen, Carsten Gliese , Andreas Rosenthal
Press Conference：on Thursday, March 1st, 2007. 7pm
Venue: 102A Cross Tower, Fu Zhou Lu 318
Opening: on Friday, March 2ed, 2007, 5pm
Date: March 2ed, 2007 to April 1st, 2007
Venue: F2,3, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum
580 Ouyang Road, Hongkou District, Shanghai
Presented by: Zhu Qizhan Art Museum ,
Kunststiftung NRW
Abteilung Kultur und Bildung des Generalkonsulats der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Cultural and Education Section of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany Shanghai
Supported by: Kloster Bentlage gGmbH
GWK
Galerie Münsterland
Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst
Special thanks to: prime minister of Northrhein-Westfalia(Ministerpräsident NRW)
Museum hours: 10am-5pm （Last entry 4.30pm ）Closed on Monday
Curators: Gu Zhenqing, Martin Rehkopp
Deputy Artistic Director: Zhang Renci Mai Feng
Chief Coordinator: Zhao Baoyu
Executive Curators: Pan Huimin, Susanne Schulte, Wang Ying
Assistant Curators: Wang Jin, Yang Yingying, Zhu Siyun, Cheng Shaoying
Technical Assistance: Sun Yizhou, Jiang Wanli,Zhuang Huahui,Zhu Fangjie
Media Coordinators: Lu Xing
Graphic Design: Yuan Guangliang 作者: 老渔翁 时间: 2007-2-7 23:11 标题: [展讯]陌生人约会—中德当代艺术展
