Wednesday, April 3, 2013
UCCA surveys a generation of young Chinese artists born after the end of the Cultural Revolution
Beijing's Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art has opened up its entire space for its current show On / Off: China's Young Artists in Theory and Practice. Curated by Bao Dong and Sun Dongdong, the exhibition brings together commissioned works from 50 artists born after 1975. This generation of artists emerged while Chinese contemporary art practice was shifting from the underground scene of the 1990s to the more commercial and institutionalised art world seen today. Read more...
Image: Yang Jian, Sooner or Later, Lightning Will Strike us all, 2011-2012, video installation