“都市中——中国当代艺术选展”新闻稿
近十年来，国际社会特别是西方尤其是美国艺术界，对于中国当代艺术都表现出有很高的兴趣和关注度，中国当代艺术也由于在国际市场上非常惊人的速度和很高的价格引起了人们的广泛关注和讨论。这种讨论，当然也包括了批评和怀疑的意见；同样，对于中国当代艺术的内容也有很多不尽相同的评价。因此，在这样的背景下，中国美术馆和美国华盛顿子午线国际中心合作举办一个规模不大，但很有意义，也反映新一代中国当代艺术发展情况的展览:“都市中——中国当代艺术选展”。 这个展览力图通过聚焦一批中青年中国艺术家的艺术观念和创作方法，反映中国的都市化进程与当代艺术之间的关系。 进入21世纪以来，中国社会发展的最显著特征莫过于迅速的都市化进程，它不仅带来城市景观与现实生活的巨大变化，更深刻地改变了从乡村到都市人们的生存方式，构成了人与人、人与自我、人与社会、人与外部环境复杂的新的相互关系，这就为敏感的艺术家提供了丰富的感受与契机。他们的艺术视角和现实体验虽然是个性的，但在艺术主题和美学倾向上很明显地具有许多共同的特征，表现出一种鲜明的当代文化性质。中国都市化进程与网络时代的到来这两种新的文化条件的交叠，更为中国艺术家运用不同的媒体特别是通过跨媒体实验从事视觉图像的创作带来了无限的可能性。媒介与形式成为他们表达自我情感的载体，也成为他们“言说”现实的“话语”。在他们的作品中，与都市化现实相关的感性经验和对于世界的现象性描述交织在一起，构成了语言活力与社会学想象力同时生发的视觉图像混合体。应该说，无论对于中国还是对于国际画坛，中国当代艺术中的优秀成果都提供了新的经验。
“都市中——中国当代艺术选展”，是中美建交30周年的纪念活动，也是中美之间第一次大规模的当代艺术交流项目。展览从2009年3月24日开幕到2009年8月24日展出5个月时间，从开幕至今，得到了美国各界的一致好评，尤其开幕式人潮涌动的景象在美国可谓空前。
范迪安先生带领周文重大使观赏参展作品
Mr. Fan Di'an leads the Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong, who watches the exhibited works.
展览主题： 都市中——中国当代艺术选展
艺术家：曹静萍 陈鸿志 陈文波 陈文令 陈志光 迟鹏 高磊 韩娅娟 何森 何汶玦 李继开 李威 林天苗 刘建华 刘俐蕴 刘庆和 刘韧 刘野 吕山川 缪晓春 他们 涂少辉 王迈 王明贤 王小慧 魏青吉 翁奋 翁云鹏 邢丹文 杨千 展望
策展人： 范迪安
开幕酒会：2009年3月24日，下午6：30－8：30
展期：2009年3月24日-2009年8月24日
主办方：中国美术馆和美国子午线国际中心
协办方：北京798别处空间画廊
地点：美国华盛顿特区子午线国际中心
范迪安先生接受媒体采访（后方作品——曹敬平《春暮》）
Mr. Fan Di'an accepts the interview of the media (behind him is the work of Cao Jingping, "The Spring Evening ").
Metropolis Now!
------A Selection of Chinese Contemporary Art
In the recent ten years, the international community, especially the Western artistic industry in the US, is interested in Chinese contemporary art and pays attention to it. Because of the speed and the high prices, Chinese contemporary art has attracted people's attention and debates in the international market. The debates, certainly include criticism and suspicious opinions. Similarly, it has the appraisal regarding Chinese Contemporary Art which is not identical. Therefore, under such background, the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) in Beijing and the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Washington DC has organised an exhibition, which was limited in size, but significative and it reflected the development of a new generation of Chinese contemporary artists: METROPOLIS NOW! A Selection of Chinese Contemporary Art, is a very challenging topic and project.
The exhibition tries to reflect the relationship of Chinese urbanization and contemporary art, by focusing on the art philosophy and technique of some young artists in China. We believe that this approach to Chinese art is appropriate. With the advent of the 21th century, there is no social change more obvious than the process of urbanization, which not only brings the great change of city landscape and people’s life, but also alters people’s way to exist in both rural and urban area. The process forms new and complex relationships between people, between people and self, between people and society and between people and environment, providing sensitive artists with rich experience and presenting them unprecedented opportunities. Although their perspectives of art and their experiences vary greatly, their topics of art and aesthetic preference share a lot in common, displaying a kind of fresh cultural quality. The advent of network age, couple with urbanization, promises possibility bound by nothing, because Chinese artists are now creating their artworks with a cross-media approach they have never imagined before. Media has become the carrier of their expression of feelings and their speech of reality. In their works, their perceptual experience of urbanization and the phenomenological description of the world are intertwined with each other, visually integrating linguistic vitality and social imagination. The achievement of Chinese contemporary art is an unprecedented experience to China and the whole world.
METROPOLIS NOW! A Selection of Chinese Contemporary Art is a commemorative activity for the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, it is also the first large-scale exchange project of Chinese contemporary art between China and the US. The exhibition starts on March 24, 2009 and is until August 24, 2009. It will last for 5 months. Since the opening, the exhibition has won wide acclaims from the United States, especially with such a big gathering at the opening ceremony, we can say it's an unprecedented scene.
艺术家王迈与参加开幕式的朋友在其作品《智擒石油兽》前
Wang Mai and some friends who attend the opening are standing in front of his work, "Capturing the Petroleum Monster through Wisdom".
Exhibition Title: Metropolis Now! — A Selection of Chinese Contemporary Art
Participating Artists: Cao Jingping, Chen Hongzhi, Chen Wenbo, Chen Wenling, Chen Zhiguang, Chi Peng, Gao Lei, Han Yajuan, He Sen, He Wenjue ,Li Jikai, Li Wei, Lin Tianmiao, Liu Jianhua, Liu Liyun, Liu Qinghe, Liu Ren, Liu Ye, Lv Shanchuan, Miu Xiaochun, THEY, Tu Shaohui, Wang Mai, Wang Mingxian, Wang Xiaohui, Wei Qingji, WengFen, Weng Yunpeng, Xing Danwen, Yang Qian, Zhan Wang
Curator: Fan Di’an
Opening Reception: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m on March 25th
Duration: March 24th through August 24th, 2009
Venue: The Meridian International Centre, in Washington, D.C.
Organized by: National Art Museum of China & The Meridian International Centre
Supported by: Beyond Art Space (Beijing 798)
陈志光雕塑作品《蚂蚁》
Chen Zhiguang’s sculpture work, "Ant".
皖公网安备 34010402700602号