Boundless Reality Multiple Nows—Contemporary Art From Hubei As a Sample
Dates: 29.12.2017-28.2.2018
Opening Hours: 9:00-17:00(closed on Mondays)
Location: Wanlin Art Museum, Wuhan University
Address: 299 Bayi Road, Hongshan District, Wuhan, China
Website: official website
Hubei Province is an important location of the 85 New Wave, which is considered as a brand new episode of Chinese contemporary art when China began to reinventing its own culture. The many artists based in the province had made it a cradle of the movements of modernism in China.
The exhibition will present the works of 21 artists(Fu Zhongwang, Gong Jian, He An, Leng Jun, Li Juchuan, Li Liao, Li Yu and Liu Bo, Liu Chuang, Ma Liuming, Shang Yang, Shi Chong, Shi Jinsong, Tang Jing, Tang Yongxiang, Wang Singsong, Wang Sishun, Wei Guangqing, Xu Tan, Yuan Xiaofang, Zeng Fanzhi, Zhan Rui) born from 1940s to 1980s and based in Hubei Province, Among these artists there are pioneers of the 85 New Wave and also the witnesses and practitioners of the Chinese Economic Reform, who interprete their observation of the real collisions of powers and conversations between China and the Western world, and also are captivated by the minute local experiences.
