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Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest

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Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
The first Trans-Southeast Asia Triennial research exhibition series PROJECT #5: Learning from the Rainforest

Host: Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Organizers: Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Research Center for New Art Museum Studies, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Duration: Nov. 1, 2022 – Jan. 6, 2023 (closed on Monday)
Venue: Exhibition Hall 7 and Hall 8, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, University Town, Panyu District

Honorary Advisors: Li Jinkun, Fan Bo
Principal Advisors: Apinan Poshyananda, Kwok Kian Chow, Hou Hanru
Academic Advisors: Deng Qiyao, Yang Xiaoyan, Hu Bin
Artistic Directors: Wang Huangsheng, Chen Xiaoyang, Hong Rongman

Curator: Cui Cancan
Exhibition Executive: Zeng Weifeng
Visual Design: Yang Liu, Liu Yihe
Exhibition Production: Li Tiejun, He Quan, Huang Xingbiao
Public Programme: Wang Xiuyuan, Liu Ziyuan, Yu Shuang

Arists (In alphabetical order)
Chen Yufan, Chen Yujun, Entang Wiharso, Han Jianyu, Hu Xiangqian, Huang Yongping, Ji Zhou, Li Ji, Luo Hengyu, Mao Xuhui, Niu Yang+Li Lianyi, Pannaphan Yodmanee, Qin Qi, Raffy T. Napay, Rodel Tapaya, Sakarin Krue On, Shen Ruijun×Xu Ziqiang×Li Ziruo, Tong Wenmin, Wu JiananYunizar, Zheng Bo, Zhu Danian, Zong Ning, Ceng Xiaolian


Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客

前言

FOREWORD


Southeast Asia, a vast span made up of Indochina and over 20,000 islands, differs from other regions in its distinctly unique clime. The confluence of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, plus the rugged and mountainous terrain on the hot and humid peninsula and islands, nourish the luxuriance of tropical rainforest. Amidst the alternating equatorial rainy climate and tropical monsoon climate, rainy and draught seasons, volcanoes and earthquakes shape up the endemic worship of nature and way of living. The mankind has long lived and thrived in the energizing jungle and learnt from nature in an unending quest of new revelations.

Defying national borders or nationalities, the “rainforest” lives in its own way. Some plants do their best to face the sunlight, growing upright towards the sun; some choose a lateral, viny growth by stretching and intersecting on the ground, leaving numerous trails; and others fashion a downward passage, rooting themselves in the depth of earth. Vastly different yet interdependent life-forms cross their lines here. The diverse ecosystem and interconnected network in the rainforest feed us alternative clues, and more: an inquiry about the way we exist, a reference for human societal structure and a discussion on the value of diversity and direction of mankind.

The “rainforest” informs our civilization and suggests multiple pathways of development. In modern art, nature and non-Western civilizations have kept pushing the envelope of art, lifting it above Eurocentrism. Witnessing the all-new forms in Van Gogh, Gauguin and Picasso enlightened by the ocean culture, tropical islands and African primitive civilizations, modernism has since taken on divided trajectories. Art transformation in China in the early 80s was also illuminated by the disparate local cultures and customs, say folkways of the Dai people in border motifs, rainforest in Xishuangbanna and heavenly landscape of Romanticism.

In contemporary art, the “rainforest”, while the target of both the consciousness of problem and learning, also equips art with multiple standpoints and topics. In Southeast Asia, South America and Africa, the renewed combination of art with nature, primitive tribes and local civilizations, the reflections on colonial history, and the “Non-Western Centrism” and “Non-Anthropocentrism” constantly make new epistemological forays into the value, aesthetic, function and breeding ground of art.

The “rainforest” is also about spirituality, a mystic power outside the remit of “Evolutionism” and “Rationalism”, and a vector of myth, witchery and romantic narratives in art. It is also under the microscope of natural science, cultural and geographical studies, anthropology and sociology, with bounty revelations at variance with the human mind and growth logic, alongside inspirations of the spirit, consciousness and mental perception in art.

The “rainforest” follows its own spatio-temporal paradigm, authoring its own story long before science and mankind found their provenance. With a more distant existence and greater potential, it has never just been resources at our disposal. “Bio-diversity” and “natural climate” have already been the centerpiece of our discussions in recent years, and also an issue of urgency that the whole mankind is compelled to manage in the modern and existential crisis.

Thus, this exhibition takes the “rainforest” as the point of departure and a source of knowledge, inviting artists, photographers, scientists and researchers from Southeast Asia and China to together showcase the revelations and references for civilization from its wisdom of inter-species co-existence and everlasting cycle of life, so as to reimagine our vision and rethink our circumstances.

The visually-enabled exhibition emulates the ecological structure of the rainforest in hall design by removing urbanized fabrics and the stereotypical White Box formula, which begets a fantastic, complex and exuberant rainforest reimagined in the confines of an art museum.

It projects the infinite growth of diversity and animated power of nature. All majestic and inscrutable, it goes far beyond our experience.
    

       Curator: Cancan Cui


Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客

部分参展作品

EXHIBIT WORKS


Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Chen Yufan/Source
Longan twig+Industrial neon light+Comprehensive technology of industrial wax
97×88×223 cm/2016

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Chen Yujun/Scattered houses NO.171228
Ink acrylic in paper/400×220 cm/2017

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Entang Wiharso(Indonesia)/Rope from the Sky
Propylene on cloth and comprehensive materials
420×800 cm/2018
Courtesy to the artist and TANG CONTEMPORARY ART

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Han Jianyu /Technical forest
Kangsong 180g sketch paper, carbon strip
 220×300 cm/2022

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Hu Xiangqian/Superfluous knowledge
Video/26min 10s/2010


Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客

Huang Yongpin/Double wing
Bamboo, silk, oil colour/606×160×17cm/2016

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Ji Zhou/Greenhouse NO. 3
Photography/120×120cm/2017
Courtesy to the artist and SPURS Gallery

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
LiI Ji/Night - Five Branch Fruit
Photography/210×260cm/2021

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Luo Hengyu/Mountain God· Dancer
Photography/64×90cm/2021

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Mao Xuhui 
Guishan Group Painting · Gift of Red Earth - Green Branches in Spring
Oil painting on canvas/80×120 cm/1987
Courtesy to Tang Contemporary Art 

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Niu Yang+Li Lianyi/Seed mirage
Several camera light boxes/2013

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Pannaphan Yodmanee (Thailand )
God of Harmony
Propylene, gold powder, resin, cement
102×125×15 cm/2017
Courtesy to the artist and TANG CONTEMPORARY ART

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Qin Qi/Untitled
Oil painting on canvas/80×80 cm/2010
Courtesy to TANG CONTEMPORARY ART

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Raffy T. Napay ( Philippines)/Untitled 2
Embroider on board/183×122 cm
Courtesy to the artist and TANG CONTEMPORARY ART

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Rodel tapaya  ( Philippines)/Beggar's Bowl
Propylene in cloth/300×500cm/2017

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Sakarin Krue On (Thailand ) /Untitled
HD single frequency image/2017
Courtesy to the artist and TANG CONTEMPORARY ART


Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Shen Ruijun × Xu Ziqiang × Li Ziruo 
 Layout space sketch of "Roof Reserve"

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Tong Wenmin/Tree root
Single frequency video/11 min 19 s/2019

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Wu Jian'an/Signs - Tiger
Dummy Specimens, Musical Instruments/209 × eighty-four × 114cm
Courtesy to © Wu Jian'an

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Yunizar (Indonesia)/Tree
Cast bronze/205 × 124 × 131cm/2019
Courtesy to the artist and TANG CONTEMPORARY ART

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Zheng Bo/Survival Manual 3
Paper Ink/18.4 × 13 cm × 110/2019

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Zhu Danian/Big Banyan Tree Forest
Color setting on paper/98 × 161cm / 1980s
Courtesy to the artist and Shixiang  Space

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Zong Ning
Imitation of "Yorimitsu Tries to capture Hakamadare by D estroying His Magic"
Photography/464 × 1150cm/2021

Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客
Zeng Xiaolian/Wutong
Comprehensive materials on paper/103 × 77cm
Courtesy to the Kunming Contemporary Art Museum



编辑:余爽
审核:王秀媛  刘子瑗  
审定:陈晓阳  洪荣满



Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest 崇真艺客

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