Harmony and Transition: Reflecting Chinese Landscapes
In recent times the shan-shui tradition of mountain-water painting is becoming increasingly important. Contemporary artists are updating the genre and transferring it to the media of photography, sculpture, installation, video and performance.
Landscape painting in China looks back on a tradition of over 1500 years. It does not concentrate on reproducing a true image of a visible outer world, but reflects the inner experience of the painter. The opposite poles of mountain and water, the solid and the liquid, are subjected to a dynamic exchange as a symbol of the balance in the world.
The invited artists reflect the tradition dedicated to harmony, and develop alien and yet pictorially powerful worlds of experience which extend beyond national borders and make nature the medium for individual systems of order and ideals, but also for change and upheaval.
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In recent times the shan-shui tradition of mountain-water painting is becoming increasingly important. Contemporary artists are updating the genre and transferring it to the media of photography, sculpture, installation, video and performance.
Landscape painting in China looks back on a tradition of over 1500 years. It does not concentrate on reproducing a true image of a visible outer world, but reflects the inner experience of the painter. The opposite poles of mountain and water, the solid and the liquid, are subjected to a dynamic exchange as a symbol of the balance in the world.
The invited artists reflect the tradition dedicated to harmony, and develop alien and yet pictorially powerful worlds of experience which extend beyond national borders and make nature the medium for individual systems of order and ideals, but also for change and upheaval.
Artists on show
- Anna Vogel
- Cai Guo Qiang
- Chi Peng
- Darren Almond
- Hai Bo
- Hamish Fulton
- Han Lei
- Hans op de Beeck
- Huang Yan
- Isa Melsheimer
- Isaac Julien
- Ji Dachun
- Julia Steiner
- Katinka Bock
- Kitty Kraus
- Kris Martin
- Maki Na Kamura
- Maleonn
- Marina Abramovi膰 & Ulay
- Markus Huemer
- Nadav Kander
- Nadja Schöllhammer
- Ni Youyu
- Qiu Shihua
- Richard Serra
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Sonja Vordermaier
- Thomas Struth
- Wang Tiande
- WassinkLundgren
- William Tucker
- Xue Song
- Yang Jiechang
- Yehudit Sasportas
- Yue Minjun
- Yun-fei Ji
- Zuoxiao Zuzhou
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