The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China
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The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China. at. Tate Liverpool is the most comprehensive survey of contemporary Chinese art to be staged. in this country. ...
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The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China Page 1 1 The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China Educators PackCao FeiUtopia 2006 Introduction As home to Britains oldest Chinese community Liverpool has maintained close links with China particularly its twin city Shanghai.The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from Chinaat Tate Liverpool is the most comprehensive survey of contemporary Chinese art to be staged in this country. It features a wide range of artists working predominantly in new media including several large scale installations and new commissions.The exhibition offers schools not only a chance to explore the varied and complex nature of the art of one of the worlds most culturally sophisticated counties but also the opportunity to examine new media art in the context of a modern art gallery. All of these works have been created during this millennium. Contemporary artists in China demonstrate a confidence that stems from a sense of their own status in the international art scene. Chinese art is in great demand in the global art market and with the establishment of collective arenas such as the 798 Art District in Beijing and the Morganshan Warehouse complex in Shanghai young artists are choosing to live and work in their native country unlike previous generations who had been forced to emigrate in order to pursue their artistic careers. Page 2 2 The title The Real Thing is significant on several levels. Many of the artists in the exhibition explore the relationship of fact and fiction in art the real and the imaginary. The title can also refer to the Wests obsession with discovering the real China. How representative of Chinese art are these artists? It reflects the genuine interest in real life issues shared by many of the featured artists which contrasts with the enforced social realism of art in China under the Mao regime. Its invocation of a certain advertising slogan also distances these artists from the political pop of the previous generat ...
Source: www.tate.org.uk
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