The Primeval Fairy Tale
Throughout the history of art, aesthetic ideas and movements that appeal to a primeval style often occur in an attempt for art to find its original power, a reactive correction to excessive delicacy, vanity and pretense in "contemporary" art. After each boom of new creation and style in arts and culture, an attempt to 鈥渞etrospect to the past鈥� or "trace back to folk traditions" almost always follows. In an effort to create a new narrative, distinct from the styles of the current era, artists form a dialectical logic in the history of aesthetics, going towards the territories of the primal states: ancestral, primitive, folk, dilettante, juvenile, foreign and subconscious. Contemporary art still adopts this logic, which can be regarded as a kind of institutional criticism projected on aesthetics, a continuous return to some archetypal themes.
As the theme of the exhibition, "The Primeval Fairy Tale" aims to bring the now subtly reappearing tendency of primitivism into perspective, focusing more on the discourse of art history. In this era when the entire world seems to lose its direction, we return to the natural state, the initial vision and conception in our own way, so that art can stand still amid the chaos.
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Throughout the history of art, aesthetic ideas and movements that appeal to a primeval style often occur in an attempt for art to find its original power, a reactive correction to excessive delicacy, vanity and pretense in "contemporary" art. After each boom of new creation and style in arts and culture, an attempt to 鈥渞etrospect to the past鈥� or "trace back to folk traditions" almost always follows. In an effort to create a new narrative, distinct from the styles of the current era, artists form a dialectical logic in the history of aesthetics, going towards the territories of the primal states: ancestral, primitive, folk, dilettante, juvenile, foreign and subconscious. Contemporary art still adopts this logic, which can be regarded as a kind of institutional criticism projected on aesthetics, a continuous return to some archetypal themes.
As the theme of the exhibition, "The Primeval Fairy Tale" aims to bring the now subtly reappearing tendency of primitivism into perspective, focusing more on the discourse of art history. In this era when the entire world seems to lose its direction, we return to the natural state, the initial vision and conception in our own way, so that art can stand still amid the chaos.
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