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| Zheng Tianming 2010 |
“纸 (zhǐ) – Paper” - Group exhibition of work on paper debuting 4 emerging artists from Hangzhou, China for their first US exhibition.
China’s art market, which has spread the idea of art as a strong social force within Chinese culture, has cultivated vast exposure for younger Chinese visual artists in the east through curators based outside the country. Fresh out of the China Academy of Art, these Western-influenced artists who have also trained within the Eastern Chinese tradition have given the Chinese art market – the world’s third-largest after overtaking France last year – a modern sensibility and expression primed for the international stage. “纸 zhǐ – Paper” – named for a primary media of this new art and in honor of the essential Chinese invention – pries open the minds of four of these young Chinese artists (Guo Tiantian, Qi Yuan, Su Xianpan and Zheng Tianming). These are artists who grew up in the new China, the post Tiananmen Square government that slowly recognized that stagnation equaled death. Appearing for the first time in the United States, these artists’ works reflect the evolving sense of individuality and personal identity formulated because of, or in spite of, a culture that still remains quintessentially Chinese.
123PolutionSolution 2010 - Selection from NYFA artist, Chin Chih Yang’s large scale found objects installation.
Chin Chih Yang sees that pollution has become a pervasive part of our lives. His large-scale 123PollutionSolution 2010 project transforms thousands of used aluminum cans into a colorful landscape with its varied topography. Yang collected discarded cans found in New York City trash cans left by students and parents from a local School. Ubiquitous concavities and hills, slopes and peaks, the installation features cans that are bunched into various abstract and geometric shapes. The structure represents an otherworldly utopia constructed out of salvaged waste.
Curated by Inez Suen, sponsored by ICFAC (International Chinese Fine Arts Council)
Butter Gallery
2303 NW 2nd Ave. Miami, Fl 33137
Press Preview: Thursday, January 6, 2011, 4-7pm
VIP Reception: Thursday, January 6, 2011, 6-9pm
Please RSVP to suen@buttergallery.com
Opening to public – Saturday, January 8, 2011 and will be on view until February 26, 2011
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