“Modernity 3.0” Exhibition
80 Washington Square East
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Modernity 3.0 intends to respond to the current crisis of Western modernity as part of a cosmopolitan course involving a worldwide transition of views. In this ongoing transition, a modernity referred to as Modernity 1.0 - characterized by traditional nation states - was transplanted by Modernity 2.0 - an ultimate form of globalization, where a compressed world without any boundary arose. However, such a compressed, globalized world producing the core notion of proximity, i.e. a world without any layer or distance, seems to no longer match today’s cultural and economic developments. Multidimensionality and the novel notion of cosmopolitanism have prompted people to ask: “Which era are we living in?”
For the majority of artists, the use of international experience is important and explosive. For example, Lin Yan’s work Me, Going to Brooklyn and Me, Going to Beijing reflect her thirty years living scenes in two cities, expressing the source of creativity and international life experience. Me, Going to Brooklyn was created in 2011. Lin Yan makes sculptural collage of cumbled layers of papers with ink and uses rubbing technique to replicate a shadow puppet figure on the surface. Her childhood memory of this traditional art form is blended with the industrial elements in her Brooklyn home. In recent years, Lin Yan has frequently traveled between Beijing and New York. Her practice further blurs boundaries, and brings histories, past and present together. For Modernity 3.0, she specifically creates a new work, Me, Going to Beijing, in response to the spreading demolition of old architectures in Beijing. Other works in the exhibition also reflect the confrontations as well as coordination between the west and east. Mr. Black and His Friend Visiting the Bunds, a two-minute animation made by Xu Bing, presents the cityscape in Shanghai. Other selected works include: On the Double Dragon Hill by Yang Fudong, Chocolate Paper Series by Pei Yongmei, Pavilion of Distance by Tiong Ang, Iconocopycity by Aglaia Knorad, etc.
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Schedule
from June 06, 2014 to July 12, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-06-05 from 18:00 to 20:30
Artist(s)
TiongAng, Aglaia Konrad, Nikki S. Lee, Lin Yan, Sarah Morris, Marion von Osten, Pei Yongmei, Xu Bing, Yang Fudong, Yu Hua