"Germinators" Exhibition
China Square
This event has ended.
Germinators includes the work of 11 up-and-coming artists from China and Taiwan, whose work deeply addresses and begins to strip bare the reality of the radical change and societal restructuring that is
playing out across the domestic landscape today. Much like a seed nestled deep within the earth that gradually sends out shoots struggling to break free in pursuit of the sun, the work presented in
“Germinators” is equally engaged in the germination of a wholly new social landscape that grows in leaps and bounds as it both analyzes that growth and becomes part of it in equal measure. As China and Taiwan continue their radical journey into uncharted territory, so too do artists living there engage in a most-intriguing game that attempts to make light of the new world around them. The work included in this exhibition, in all of its raw and powerful imagery, seems to fuse notions of organic bodies colliding with technology and the future, and at times with Nature itself. All of it points directly to
the stark realities of contemporary life in these two cultures marked by constant flux. Looking carefully at the artists’ works, it soon becomes apparent that, for them, change is a most fertile field from which to draw subject matter.
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Schedule
from July 02, 2008 to August 02, 2008
Opening Reception: July 10, 6 - 8 pm.
Artist(s)
Cao Jingping, Chen Wei, Li Jikai, Liao Yibai, Ma’chunfu, Qu Jieheng, Unmask, Wang Haiyang, Wang Tiantian, Wang Yaqiang, and Zhang Peng