Arthub Favortie: Week 44

Arthub would like to introduce the upcoming exhibition Messages from the Ruin to our Taiwanese followers. The group show includes works by eight renowned artists exploring the ways in which the concept of abstraction has been abused.

Duration: November 5 – December 11, 2016
Venue: Asia Art Center Taipei II
No. 93 Lequn 2nd Rd., Taipei, Taiwan

Participating Artists: Jiang Pengyi, Ju Ting, Liu Wentao, Tao Yi, Wang Yuyang, Xu Qu, Zhao Zhao, Zhong (Yunshu) Tant
Curator: Sun Dongdong

The exhibition dissects the definitions of abstraction and representation in both broad and narrow senses, and examines the cognitive gap between modern and contemporary art history. The curator then goes deeper into the exhibition title Message from the Ruin to allude to confusions revolving around the form and definition of abstraction in contemporary art. As abstraction evolves in modern and contemporary art, overuse of the word seems to have provoked considerable debates, and indeed remains the most contentious issue in the recent international art scene, and yet it invites a more open-ended application and imagination of abstraction. The creative practices of the 8 exhibiting artists all point to observations and summaries of the counter force projected onto the current concept of abstraction as proposed by the curator, demonstrating the variety of interpretations made possible by their creators.

Please click here for more details on the exhibition.

About Curator

Sun Dongdong was born in 1977 in Nanjing. He graduated in Fine Arts at the Nanjing University of Arts in 2005 and majored in Art History at Nanjing University of Arts. He currently lives and works in Beijing. He worked at Si Fang Art Museum, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art and LEAP. He has curated No Express: Hu Weiyi (UCCA, Beijing, 2015), Shi Qing: Hinterland Project (Time Museum, Guangzhou, 2015), and ON | OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept & Practice (UCCA, Beijing, 2013).