Press Release

FROM: Sunday, August 18, 2013 – 09:00 TO: Sunday, November 10, 2013 – 17:00
RUNNING DATES:
Sunday 18th August – Sunday 10th November 2013
Website:http://www.powerstationofart.org/en/exhibition/overview/82fcqx.html

Exhibition View
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Exhibition View
展览现场

Since the end of the 1970s, Chinese Contemporary Art has experienced 30 years of development of trials and hardships. From “85 New Wave” in the 1980s, international recognition in the 1990s, commercial success in the 2000s to today’s overall prosperity, Chinese contemporary art as a newly arising cultural form has been recognized generally by the domestic and the international, the private and the official. However, 30 Years of development of contemporary art also reflects that China and Chinese have experienced huge changes during the special times. No matter China’s integral economics and culture, or Chinese people’s self cognition and social involvement, all these could be reflected by artists’ works over these years. We hope that this exhibition could act as an entry point to generally define “portrait”, not only show paintings on the theme of “portrait”, but also present body-oriented works integrating sculpture, installation, video, photography, performance, and etc, demonstrate the significance of the theme at different levels in diversified ways, and make available the possibility of multi-faceted interpretation to the audience.

陈丹青，《泪水洒满丰收田》，布面油画，150cm×200cm，1976，私人收藏

方少华，《似水流年——收录机》，布面油画，233cm×160cm，2007，季丰轩提供

The exhibition will take the display of visual arts as the main clue, combine it with assortment of the domains of parallel culture and subculture, such as literature, film, drama, music, and etc, panoramically manifest the development course of Chinese contemporary art since the reform and opening up for more than 30 years, and cordially and rationally describe the transformation of the mental appearance of the Chinese people.

隋建国，《衣纹研究—掷铁饼者》，雕塑，172cm×120cm×60cm，1998，私人收藏

杨福东，《国际饭店 No.1》，摄影，180cm×120cm，2010，香格纳画廊提供

The theme of exhibition is Portrait of the Times – 30 Years of Contemporary Art, will open on August 17, 2013, and last for three months. This exhibition features about 115 artists (groups), and about 300 arts works.