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Reporter of
Yangcheng Evening News/Liu Chaoxia
Trainee Lu
Jiayin
After the Inauguration
Exhibition and project exhibitions launched in 2011 and 2012, the theme exhibition of the 4th Guangzhou Triennial will run
from September 28th to December 16th 2012. In the news
conference of the 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Luo Yiping, director of Guangdong
Museum of Art, and the curators, Jiang Jiehong and Jonathan Watkins, illustrated
the theme of this exhibition named “the Unseen”.
To Presents
another Contemporary
As the highlight
of the triennial, this theme exhibition will showcase artworks of nearly 80
artists from 30 countries and regions in various venues, such as Guangdong
Museum of Art, Guangzhou Opera House and Grandview Plaza.
The
theme of this theme exhibition, “the Unseen”, means “to see the unseen”. One of
the curators, Jiang Jiehong, gave us a brilliant interpretation. The Unseen
theologically creates faith to provide truth for the seeable and evidence for
the unseen. "Taking Jesus as an
example," Jiang said, "No artist has ever seen Jesus. However the image of Jesus
created from imagination plays a key role in the history of western art. We
could even say that 'no Jesus, no western art'. Our artistic creation relies a
lot on the visual imagination, and it is, exactly, this dependency gives the
rich diversity to art." He indicated that not only the big names but also those
who have passed away could be found in this exhibition. Some works date back to
17th and 19th centuries. Different
from the linear thinking of “contemporary” tagged vanguard, experiment, and
mix-media, this theme exhibition will explore the infinity and eternal
contemporaneity through a finite thinking and ephemeral.
“Practice-led”
for Imagination
Another curator
of the theme exhibition, Jonathan Watkins, director of British Ikon Gallery, is
very fond of the theme.
The Unseen
refers to the limitations of our sensory organs, the narrow confines of human
perception on the one hand; on the other, paradoxically, it gives rise to
observations that transcend familiar experience. “What we see now actually base
on what we do not see. Art and other things in life have no essential
difference. Life itself is more creative than art, so how does an artist create
art? It needs practice.” Therefore, a “practice-led” approach is adopted in this
exhibition. The idea of “the Unseen” originally reveals the humor of art as well
as enriches the interactivity and affinity of artworks in this theme exhibition.
Jonathan Watkins expected spectators to experience the charm of art with more
imagination.
One of the
participating artists, Ms Susan Philipsz, was awarded 2010 British Turner Prize
with her sound device called “Far Lowlands”. She said she would spend more time
to feel Guangzhou and demonstrate her understanding of
this place with her sound works.
Source:
Yangcheng Evening News
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