Super Fusion: Composed of 8 Sectional Exhibitions
What happens when binaries break down? East and West, domestic and international, ancient and modern. When these binaries break down, we find disparate points of view seeking to fuse into new solutions and perspectives.
The 2021 Biennale is curated by Fan Di’an, the President of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, chairman of China Artists Association, and deputy director of Art Education Committee at China’s Ministry of Education. But it’s not curated by one man alone. A biennale of this scale, filling two huge and brand new museums, is composed of 8 sectional exhibitions curated by a total of 16 curators. In this first of a series of blog entries on the Chengdu Biennale, we’ll simply outline the 8 sectional exhibitions. We’ll focus on them in blog entries. Stay tuned!
Polymorphic Co-Existence
Curators: Fan Di’an, Lu Peng, Zhang Zikang, Qiu Zhijie, Yang Wei, and Ji Shaofeng
39 artists from 12 countries
Main ideas: philosophy, society, life, media, information, space and time
Homeland Co-Habitation
Curators: Fang Zhenning, Han Tao
Nearly 50 artists and collectives
Main ideas: architecture, urban planning, human-centered design
Technological Correspondence
Curators: Qiu Zhijie, Jeffrey Shaw
32 artists from many countries
Main ideas: body, ecology, signs, cosmos, the ways in which people, cities, geographies, and digital information systems interact and exchange information with each other.
Zeitgeist Co-evolution
Curators: Ji Yujie, Zhou Bo
Main ideas: conceptual photography, illustration, conceptual design, installation and sculpture that illustrate the interconnected and symbiotic nature of contemporary art, fashion, and design
Ecological Co-Development
Curators: Wang Shaoqiang, Jia Yunbo
Main ideas: the relationship between humanity and nature as mediated through contemporary art forms, with a focus on international discussions interact with more locally inflected work by Chengdu artists.
Craft Co-operation
He Guiyan, Li Keke
Main ideas: artists from outside and within China focus in their artworks upon ways in which old cultures are activated as local traditions interact with global trends in contemporary art, with a focus on how craft and fine art interact as fields of creative praxis
Ethnic Co-creation
Curators: Wu Hongliang, Xue Jiang
Main ideas: diversity of and interface between ethnic cultures within China, interaction of Sichuan region with other regions of China
Artistic Co-Inspiration
Curators: Lu Peng, Wang Chunchen
Main ideas: 57 artist-teachers from the higher art academies of China, Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Japan, and other countries reflect the zeitgeist, diversity, and pedagogical trends out of which artworks arose
In future blog entries, we’ll engage individually with each of these sectional exhibitions, providing images of artworks, artists, curators, and installations, as well as of the Tianfu Art Museum and Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art within which all these artworks reside over the next nearly half a year.
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