Curator: Lisa Chang Lee
Opening: 2015.9.23
Duration: 2015.9.22 - 2015.10.3
At the juncture of the 9th Impact International Symposium (2015), using traditional printmaking language as the basis, this exhibition seeks to explore the possibility for traditional prints to have a more profound and far-reaching impact on the art scene, against the backdrop of contemporary art development.
ARTIST
Pauline Emond
Anastasia Mina
Max Appel-Palma
Jasmin Edelbrunner
James Seow
Karina Mendreczky
江超/Jiang Chao
陈钊/Chen Zhao
张菀/Zhang Wan
张月薇/Zhang Yuewei
王梅一/Wang Meiyi
刘佳玉/Liu Jiayu
FORWORD
/ Lisa Chang Lee
At the juncture of the 9th Impact International Symposium (2015), using traditional printmaking language as the basis, this exhibition seeks to explore the possibility for traditional prints to have a more profound and far-reaching impact on the art scene, against the backdrop of contemporary art development.
Printmaking’s reliance on material and medium means that the art form thus derived is a process of continuous making, reworking and progression. The engraving, etching and decompression methods employed in printmaking render similar-looking prints unique in their own ways. Print’s reproduction and its association with post-modern pictorial culture have gradually transcended its physical functions as a medium, and prints have become a widely used stylistic language, resulting in social and humanistic significance that is more wide-ranging.
From manual printmaking to mechanical printing, from the world of paper to the digital world, to an age in which video and audio signals keep bombarding us. As Will Self, the British author says, we live in a post image. In the 21st century, life is rife with visual excesses. Everywhere we look, we see images in abundance, either by our doing or by our contemporaries. Entertainment programs, advertisements, road signs, just to name a few, have invaded our life and been taken for granted as symbols of culture. As a result, such repetition is no longer a simple cycle but a spiral with the butterfly effect. At the same time, the focus of contemporary art has become inevitably and increasingly intertwined with every facets of social, cultural and economic fabric. Artists pay heed to the repetitive and plain banality of daily life, and question, enquire into or provoke interest in factors underlying such banality, with languages expressed in a myriad of forms. This exhibition hopes to provide an open and free space, without constraining and commenting on the art medium. Instead, it seeks to emphasize through international and diverse perspectives the multi-faceted contemporary life. The exhibition discusses and explores the interaction between repetition and spiral, as well as the utilization and re-creation of the repetitive process by Chinese and foreign artists in a conscious or unconscious manner.
Thus, the exhibition has become a node by which it turns into a spiral process.
RALATED LINKS
www.sznews.com/art/content/2015-10/19/content_12370758_2.htm
www.sznews.com/art/content/2015-10/19/content_12370758.htm
www.douban.com/event/25214719/
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