Artists: James Benning, Amir Fattal, Feng Mengbo, David Krippendorff, Lin Xueming, Katie Paterson,Hiraki Sawa,Shen Shaomin, Song Dong, The Propeller Group, Bill Viola,Wang Huangsheng, Zhang Dali
Duration: Permanent Exhibition
Venue: Hall1,3,4,5,WORKSHOP
Curator: David Elliott
Organizer:Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art | RMCA
As well as staging regular monographic and thematic exhibitions of major artists for over 5 years, the Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art has also been assembling a significantcollection of art from both Asia and the wider world. This has focused not onlyon how the function of art itself has developed in different contexts, but alsoon how our perception of the world around art has changed.
These‘images of transcendence” imply an ability to go beyond mundane detail and to see, oraspire to, a better and more intelligent state. Artists see the world in many different ways and this, of course,reflects their experience and what they see as the future. Their work may be equallya channel for empathy with others and also open up new ways for us to see howwe fit in.
Experiencein life is rarely seamless and may seem an endlessly jerky succession ofconnections and fractures. Yet, rather than being the process of constantdiversion from a single objective that this may imply, it should suggest astate of infinite possibility: a fluid moebius strip in which a new connectionmay be made out of every fracture, and any connection may be broken to create abetter link.
The13 artists chosen for this exhibition all look at the past, present and future asa series of connections in which their work provides a platform for contemplation,enhanced experience and understanding.
Amir Fattal | 1978 | HALL 1
ATARA | 2019
Video
15min
Lin Xueming | 1954 | HALL 1
The Wall | 2016
Rice Paper
Shen Shaomin | 1956 | HALL 1
How Long is Infinity | 2011
Installation
David Krippendorff | 1967 | HALL 1
Nothing Escapes My Eyes | 2015
Video
13:43min
Zhang Dali | 1963 | HALL 1
Dialogue and Demolition | 1998
Photography
Hiraki Sawa | 1977 | HALL 1
Absent | 2018
Video
4:37min
James Benning | 1942 | HALL 1
Two Moons | 2018
Video
43:30min
Bill Viola | 1951 | HALL 3
The Martyrs | 2014
Video
7:10min
Katie Paterson | 1981 | HALL 4
Langjökull, Snæfellsjökull, Solheimajökull | 2007
Video
117:43min
Song Dong | 1966 | HALL 4
Touching My Father | 1997-2011
Performance by Video
Feng Mengbo | 1966 | HALL 5
195806 | 2015
Video
33:05min
Shen Shaomin | 1956 | HALL 5
I Touched The Voice of God | 2012
Titanium alloy, Braille, Video
The Propeller Group | HALL 5
AK47 vs.M16 | 2015
Bullets, Ballistics gel, Video
2:22min
Wang Huangsheng | 1956 | WORKSHOP
Tangle | 2015
Barbed Wire, Gauze,Fire,Wind