Current Exhibition | Learning from the Rainforest
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The first Trans-Southeast Asia Triennial research exhibition series PROJECT #5: Learning from the RainforestHost: Guangzhou Academy of Fine ArtsOrganizers: Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Research Center for New Art Museum Studies, Guangzhou Academy of Fine ArtsDuration: 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 DistrictHonorary Advisors: Li Jinkun, Fan BoPrincipal Advisors: Apinan Poshyananda, Kwok Kian Chow, Hou HanruAcademic Advisors: Deng Qiyao, Yang Xiaoyan, Hu BinArtistic Directors: Wang Huangsheng, Chen Xiaoyang, Hong RongmanExhibition Executive: Zeng WeifengVisual Design: Yang Liu, Liu YiheExhibition Production: Li Tiejun, He Quan, Huang XingbiaoPublic Programme: Wang Xiuyuan, Liu Ziyuan, Yu ShuangArists (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 Jian’an, Yunizar, Zheng Bo, Zhu Danian, Zong Ning, Ceng XiaolianSoutheast 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.Longan twig+Industrial neon light+Comprehensive technology of industrial waxChen Yujun/Scattered houses NO.171228Ink acrylic in paper/400×220 cm/2017Entang Wiharso（Indonesia）/Rope from the SkyPropylene on cloth and comprehensive materialsCourtesy to the artist and TANG CONTEMPORARY ART
Han Jianyu /Technical forestKangsong 180g sketch paper, carbon stripHu Xiangqian/Superfluous knowledgeHuang Yongpin/Double wingBamboo, silk, oil colour/606×160×17cm/2016Photography/120×120cm/2017Courtesy to the artist and SPURS GalleryLiI Ji/Night - Five Branch FruitPhotography/210×260cm/2021Luo Hengyu/Mountain God· DancerGuishan Group Painting · Gift of Red Earth - Green Branches in SpringOil painting on canvas/80×120 cm/1987Courtesy to Tang Contemporary Art
Niu Yang＋Li Lianyi/Seed mirageSeveral camera light boxes/2013Pannaphan Yodmanee (Thailand )Propylene, gold powder, resin, cementCourtesy to the artist and TANG CONTEMPORARY ARTOil painting on canvas/80×80 cm/2010Courtesy to TANG CONTEMPORARY ARTRaffy T. Napay ( Philippines)/Untitled 2Embroider on board/183×122 cmCourtesy to the artist and TANG CONTEMPORARY ARTRodel tapaya ( Philippines)/Beggar's BowlPropylene in cloth/300×500cm/2017Sakarin Krue On (Thailand ) /UntitledHD single frequency image/2017Courtesy to the artist and TANG CONTEMPORARY ARTShen Ruijun × Xu Ziqiang × Li Ziruo Layout space sketch of "Roof Reserve"Single frequency video/11 min 19 s/2019Dummy Specimens, Musical Instruments/209 × eighty-four × 114cmCast bronze/205 × 124 × 131cm/2019Courtesy to the artist and TANG CONTEMPORARY ARTZheng Bo/Survival Manual 3Paper Ink/18.4 × 13 cm × 110/2019Zhu Danian/Big Banyan Tree ForestColor setting on paper/98 × 161cm / 1980sCourtesy to the artist and Shixiang SpaceImitation of "Yorimitsu Tries to capture Hakamadare by D estroying His Magic"Photography/464 × 1150cm/2021Comprehensive materials on paper/103 × 77cmCourtesy to the Kunming Contemporary Art Museum
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