Transfer – 2011 Art Exhibition in No. 1 Sanguandian
一、Organizer: Hubei Museum of Art
二、Duration: December 17, 2011 to February 12, 2012
三、Venue: Hall 1 to Hall 6, Hubei Museum of Art
四、Opening Time: 10:30 a.m., December 17, 2011
五、Opening Venue: Public Hall, Floor 1, Hubei Museum of Art
六、Exhibition Organizations:
Director: Fu Zhongwang
Curator: Ji Shaofeng
Organization Committee Members:
Wang Xiaohong, Liu Liying, Li Heqing, Xiao Chuanbin, Luo Lianghua, Zhang Yueping, Hu Ying, Lang Xuebo, Fu Zhongwang, Ji Shaofeng
Curation Assistant: Xia Zi; Exhibition Editors: Zhang Qian, Li Yuting
Graphic Designer: Huang Li; Space Designer: Peng Xiangfeng
Public Education: Fu Jian
Media Promotion: Xia Zi, Fu Jian, Zhang Yuehong, Xu Jing
七、Artists to Participate:
Fang Shaohua, Shi Lei, Li Bangyao, Xiao Feng, Yang Guoxin, Yuan Xiaofang, Fu Zhongwang, Wei Guangqing
八、Time of Seminar: 2:00 p.m., December 17, 2011
九、Venue of Seminar: Art Communication Center, Floor 4, Hubei Museum of Art
十、Theme of Seminar: Possibility of Art in Global Capitalism Times
Preface
The constant progress and change occurred in the times are an inevitable reality that we must face.
In the middle and late 1980s, new thought trends in art began to upsurge. Hubei at that time led the national fashion and the theoretical journal - Ideological Trend in Fine Arts, under the effort of numerous art historians, had become a platform for active academic exchange and information distribution. A large batch of young artists from across the country assembled at Wuhan. Under the mutual communication and influence, they formed Hubei artists group known in the Chinese contemporary art history. Although in the course of time a lot of them gradually left Hubei, having been a “transfer” place for China, the unique temperament of Hubei still attracts the artists already left and the ones chosen to stay.
Since the new century, the emergence of art institutes like art galleries, and the various large academic activities and exhibitions held, has showed that the art atmosphere of Hubei is becoming alive again. Today, when we try to comb the art status of Hubei in the recent decade, the eight artists that have witnessed the art status and are still active in today’s art circle come into our vision and become the subject of our narration. They are Fang Shaohua, Shi Lei, Li Bangyao, Xiao Feng, Yang Guoxin, Yuan Xiaofang, Fu Zhongwang, and Wei Guangqing respectively.
A decade ago, they debuted in the art field; today some of them still insist on their original theme, some turned their wheel. Some remained in Hubei regardless how the trend goes, some left yet was drawn back now and then. From ambitious youth to middle age, they have reflected upon life and time has sublimed them. For those eight artists, the decade since the new century is like a transfer in their life and art career. Through their works, we can see clearly their diversified and multiplized reflections on the art development trend in these ten years.
Based on this, Hubei Museum of Art has planned “Transfer – 2011 Art Exhibition in No. 1 Sanguandian”. The creation of academic brand “No. 1 Sanguandian” is a thing worthy of mention. “No. 1 Sanguandian” is a name full of traditional culture color and regional feature. The act of naming an academic brand after a place name shows that Hubei Museum of Art is trying to break through region limits while keeping Hubei as its base, displaying its courage in innovating cultural vision and its cultural confidence as well as self awareness. “Transfer – 2011 Art Exhibition in No. 1 Sanguandian” is the debut exhibition responding to this academic brand.
In the times featured of progress and change, “Transfer” enables us to make a pause and reflect upon our position and steering direction. The “No. 1 Sanguandian” exhibition will be held once every two years; we believe that more academic issues worthy of concern and research will be dug out through it.
Hubei Museum of Art
December, 2011
