OPENING - summer group show aura gallery beijing July 26 鈥 August 26, 2008, opening reception July 26, 3 p.m. Opening up ourselves is to give ourselves a mirror, we reflect ourselves through seeing others. The former Chairman of the U.S. Fed Alan Greenspan believes that the avalanche of the Soviet Union was because of the open policy of Mikhail Gorbachev, which allowed the people of Soviet Union experiencing freedom. The pursuit of free market, open international trade and global financial operation of China has facilitated the burgeoning of democracy in a freer Chinese society. Being influenced and influential, transformed and transformative at the same time, China has entered a new stage that relies more on international exchange and is anticipated to face and accept more changes as well as motivated to change. The exhibition 鈥淥pening鈥 curated by the Aura Gallery in August aims to investigate the impacts over individuals in an opening up society and economy; furthermore, it probes the possibility of kicking off a new art form through the opening up China.