森美术馆“跟我来”！[推荐]

苏文祥

China: Crossroads of Culture
2 July - 4 September 2005 (Open Every Day)
Mori Art Museum, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower 53F

Hours: 10:00-22:00; 10:00-17:00 on Tuesdays.
*Admission until 30 minutes before closing time

Organizer: Mori Art Museum, The Sankei Shimbun, China Cultural Property Promotion Association

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A New Look at the Birth of Classical Chinese Culture:
Previously Unknown National Treasures Rewrite the Traditional View of History

The Mori Art Museum presents an exhibition of art from ancient China that is unprecedented in its scope and quality. With over 210 items - over half of them designated National Treasures - assembled from over 40 institutions across China, the exhibition will show how, from the first to the eighth century, classical Chinese culture was born and molded through a continual process of exchange between the kingdoms, empires and tribes located to the east, west, north and south of the Silk Road.
After the collapse of the powerful Han dynasty at the start of the third century, China fragmented, falling into a period of continual war. The time up to unification under the Sui in 581 is known as the period of the Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern dynasties and was long looked upon as an age of confusion and chaos with encroachment from and eventual conquest by barbaric nomadic tribes in the north and Central Asian peoples from the west. Recent archaeological discoveries and research, however, have given rise to a very different view of this history. It is now seen as a time when, following collision and assimilation with foreign cultures, Chinese civilization matured to create the golden age of the Tang dynasty upon which our view of classical Chinese culture is based. It is now clear that this was not created by the Chinese people alone but resulted out of the ferment of divergent cultures - from Mongolia, Siberia, India, Persia, Central Asia, Byzantium and even Rome.


Platter with Deer Motif
Tang dynasty, 8th century

举办“中国★美之十字路口”展、“跟我来！”展！
  
森大厦53层的森美术馆将于7月2日(周六)至9月4日(周日)期间，举办“中国★美之十字路口”展和“跟我来！:新世纪中国现代美术”展。

“中国★美之十字路口”展是一个以后汉(1～3世纪)到盛唐(8世纪)的历史为时间纵轴，以东西交流、南北交流为地理横轴，由首次登陆日本的国宝级文物构成的展览会。

“跟我来！”展是一个介绍受瞬息万变的当代中国之影响的新一代艺术家--共16组19位人士2000年以来的大约40幅作品之展览会。

凭东京城市观景的入场券可以参观上述展会。

■展期 : 7月2日(周六)至9月4日(周日)
■开馆时间 : 【森美术馆】
周一～周日 10:00～22:00
周二10:00～17:00
※最迟入场时间为闭馆前30分钟

http://www.mori.art.museum/

About the exhibition:

Contemporary China is characterized by an incredible dynamism. Things seem to be transformed everyday, fuelled by astonishing economic growth, frantic urban development and the preparations for the 2008 Olympics. Of course these changes are reflected in art. Throughout the 1990s Chinese artists slowly emerged into the international art world and were invited to take part in numerous exhibitions across the world. Now, at the threshold of the new millennium, interest in Chinese contemporary art is peaking again, as a new generation of artists - born in the late 1960s and 1970s - appears on the scene.
This new generation presents us with an accurate and complex picture of a culture in transition. They take as their subject matter the country\'s disappearing traditional landscape, its new urbanism and rapidly changing social values. They are also concerned with the ways in which Chinese people are adapting their lifestyles to contemporary realities, freeing themselves from traditional stereotypes while actively utilizing new technologies.
"Follow Me! Chinese Contemporary Art at the Threshold of the New Millennium" introduces over forty works by nineteen artists of this new generation. The title of the exhibition is taken from Wang Qingsong\'s photo-tableau "Follow Me," included in the show, which shows the artist as a teacher seated in front of a blackboard covered in Chinese and English writing on which the logos of famous American and European brands can be seen - a sideways comments perhaps on China\'s recent wave of privatizations and opening up to foreign markets. But the words at the center of the board - "Let China walks towards the world! Let the world learns about China!" - suggest that they should not slavishly follow the developed world. In fact, the artist seems to be asking who, in the future, will be doing the leading.
In confronting the many faces of the new China there can no longer be any single point of view or message in the art. One thing is sure though, the influence of this country\'s artists is certain to grow in the future.

Artists:
Cao Fei
Chen Shaoxiong
Chen Wenbo
Liu Zheng
Lu Hao
Ou Ning
Shao Yinong / Mu Chen
Shi Yong
Wang Qingsong
Weng Fen
Xu Zhen
Yang Fudong
Yang Zhenzhong
The Yangjiang Group (Zheng Guogu, Chen Zaiyan, Sun Qinglin)
Yin Xiuzhen
Zhou Tiehai