Vancouver Art Gallery presents Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art The Vancouver Art Gallery presents Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art, an exhibition featuring the work of three generations of contemporary Chinese artists, including Ai Weiwei, Chen Shaoxiong, Yun-Fei Ji, Liu Jianhua, Jennifer Wen Ma, MadeIn Company, Qiu Shihua, Sun Xun, Xu Bing, and Zhang Enli. On view from November 15, 2014 to April 6, 2015, this exhibition includes a dynamic range of artworks—from site-specific installations made especially for the exhibition to digital animations—that examine the influence of traditional aesthetics in China today. Together with The Forbidden City: Inside the Court of China’s Emperors (on view through January 11, 2015), Unscrolled inaugurates the Vancouver Art Gallery’s new Institute of Asian Art, a comprehensive initiative expanding the Gallery’s exhibitions, collections and programs in the field of Asian art. Featuring nearly 30 large-scale artworks, Unscrolled explores China’s cultural heritage as a source for contemporary artistic practice. Traditions are primarily derived from customs, routines, conventions and rules that have evolved over time into ways of being and organizing, which often lose their practical purposes, yet retain symbolic meanings and associations. Distant from their original context and circumstances, they allow for reinvention and reiteration that arise from projections of the present. Tradition in Unscrolled is transformed by individual experiences, contemporary challenges and concerns. The exhibition unfolds as audiences move from overt representations to those that re-invent traditional aesthetic theory in new conceptual ways. e-flux/announcements/unscrolled-reframing-tradition-in-chinese-contemporary-art/
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