Communications: American artists in China, "empathy"

BEIJING, July 17, Guangzhou Xinhua: Chinese American artists in the "empathy"

Author Fangqiong Min

Built-in Western classical Chinese dressing box sailing, China carved stool on the globe, printed with Chinese elements of Western calls, together with the audio guide tells the history of the West ... In the United States created by artists Megan • Gordon "Lee China's wind Memorial ", the Chinese and Western cultures and Western history together on such a wonderful, unique and elegant, amazing.

16 evening, "empathy" era of American Art Exhibition in Guangzhou Art Museum, Megan • Gordon, Shana • Morton, Rock Sana • Perez Mendez, Adam Smith • Parker • and Brian • Barzani Chrysler, five New York artists in the most active young resident here for 15 days writing. Wholesale market in Guangzhou, the artist will use the "Made in China" material to create, through the works reflect the spirit of the pursuit of contemporary American youth.

"Wholesale market in Guangzhou, I am most fascinated by the strange combination of Chinese and Western culture looks reflect the items, which may be as Americans, I, as a reflection of Chinese culture and to imagine it." Megan • Gordon said, "visit Lee Memorial can touch the items inside while listening to audio guides, multi-cultural and multi-historical experience, I believe there will be an unusual feeling. "

Exhibition, the artist Brian • Barzani collected from the wholesale market to Chrysler's use of some electronic products and daily necessities, to create a collection like a museum Treasure room-like space. According to a staff of field, works express the artist's American materialism and consumerism of a reflection, also expressed his thought in Chinese culture, the artist will put photographs in the United States and in China the creation of devices combining site together to achieve more interesting, more rich content results.

Curator Chen Ruijun that the American public's understanding of Chinese culture is not deep, most people know the Chinese culture in Chinatown or completely Americanized Chinese fast food. Many people can identify with Chinese traditional characteristics of the image, but can not really understand the contemporary Chinese people's living and thinking. "By 'empathy' exhibition, American artist to make their own from a different perspective of China's cultural differences, understand each other's position."

It is understood that the exhibition also invited five outstanding young artists from China and the participating artists to discuss the United States will be in the form of a four-day interaction. Discussion of each artist and one by a Chinese American artists to show works, then some of their concerns with other artists to discuss and exchange views. Chen Ruijun said, "the collision of the Sino-US cultural differences, different social experience will lead to the exchange of perspectives on the artists, they will enter a new understanding of the situation surrounding each other's things, looking self-resonate." Ends