| "Up Down Light Right:Academic
Invitation Show" was held from May 25 to June 16 in Chengdu
Contemporary Arts Museum.The Curators were Zhang Yingchuan and
Chen Muo.Specially invited critics were Dao Zi,Chu Sang and
Zha Chuangping.
Along with the rising of the western feminism in the 1970s,
all kinds of creative impetuses on women's topics began to
emerge in large numbers, they were actively reflected by the
contemporary arts after '85 Artistic Trends in China. But
because of the questions of Chinese local faith, the statements
on these topics said above from the artists in their native
country tend to express their own characteristics of culture.
This mainly refers to the artists who gave up the desire of
being culturally colonized and more fussed on pondering on
the aboriginal cultures.
It must be recognized that there are lots of possibilities
in art, and that art's functions is limited. On the contrary,
the artists of this show (called as Up Down&Left Right),
especially the female ones among them, are deeply interested
in the selfconsciousness of sex. It is believed that art could
explain itself with in limited topics. Therefore, these artists
always can slowly and concentrated develop their clear-cut
feminist languages. Here, the outdated argument for the theory
of pansexuality is not very emphasized, but it is not denied
that the sexual intentions in artistic expression have an
eternal aesthetic value.
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