Notes on Region
Dates: 3.3.2018 – 7.4.2018
Opening hours: 10:00-18:00(closed on Mondays)
Location: Contemporary Gallery Kunming
Address: Park 1903, Qianwei West Rd., Kunming, China
Website: official web page
On March the 3rd 2018 Contemporary Gallery Kunming has held its opening ceremony and in the meantime has been proud to announce its inaugural exhibition Notes on Region, opening on the same day, in which 10 artists will present their artworks, they are Cheng Xinhao, Guo Peng, He Jing, He Da, Li Donghai, Li Gang, Li Rui, Su Jiaxi, Yan Junjie and Ye Funa. By presenting artworks created by these young artists born since 1980 who grew up o work o live now in Yunnan Province, the exhibition aims to deconstruct the word “region” through lenses of cultural diversity, geographic history and contemporary vision, and tries to reconstruct its notion by different means ranging from abstract and concrete, to formal and conceptual. The distinguishing point of the exhibition is its multidisciplinary nature, namely a combination of the field of humanity, natural science and conceptual art.
Among the participated artists, some have already got achievements in there career, for example Li Gang has held a solo exhibition in Galerie Urs Meile Beijing in 2013 who’s representative work is Preyer Beads (397 pieces 2012) and many others; Cheng Xinhao received his PhD on Chemistry from Peking University in 2013, working as an artist now, he investigates on the issues in the modernization, the construction of knowledge as well as the production of space in Chinese society, and in 2017 his solo exhibition Time from Different Sources: Images from Ciman Village was held in Jiazazhi Gallery in Ningbo, China.
(Images from Internet)