Ways of Seeing is a showcase, a manifesto of sort, of an art that focuses on the human condition. CHAO Art Center is pleased to announce that the 2019 Annual Art Exhibition “The Way of Seeing” will open on August 16th and continue until October 6th, 2019. The exhibition gather 17 acclaimed individuals/groups of both Chinese and foreign contemporary artists, including a number of “textbook-style” works, and many significant works that were first publicly exhibited in China. After more than a year of preparation, this exhibition will be presented from a variety of angles besides the text of the work. To build a deeper visual context, Ways of Seeing puts into question some normative values in contemporary art like monumentality, recency and uniqueness. From which to explore the Way of Seeing of contemporary Art.

Artists

Marina Abramović

Banksy

Joseph Beuys

Chen Chieh-Jen

Guerrilla Girls

He Yunchang

Jenny Holzer

Huang Rui

Alfredo Jaar

K Foundation

Allan Kaprow

Ana Mendieta

Yoko Ono

Ulay

Wang Guangyi

Wang Qingsong

Xu Bing

Ways of Seeing title is borrowed from the British author and critic John Berger’s groundbreaking television series broadcasted on the BBC in 1972 and published as a book the following year, as an hommage and a reminder that ”the relation between what we see and what we know is never settled”.

Not seeing, because not knowing the copy from the original. Here each piece embodies an original mind of its own. Together, arm in arm, they stand like a choir of different voices stimulating us to think, learn and understand in other ways, what contemporary art actually can be. It learns us to distinguish an art that speaks with poetry about existence, from an art that does not. Articulating a hope of sincerity and courage, of something genuine, something which at times lacks in our smartphone lifes of smiles and likes.

Although the pieces in Ways of Seeing are all very different, in content, form, intention and concept, they are all linked. Together they manifest an important diversity through originality and strong artistic vision. Poetic in attitude they tell some astounding stories and shows unforgettable images that only can but trigger our imagination of the possible - and the impossible. Their critical, intuitive, unexpected and at times mindblowing content shows us what art can be and become. It is a good beginning.

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