On the occasion of its fourth birthday, The Powerlong Art Museum in Shanghai will launch the "Pulse of Modernity: Powerlong Art Exhibition" on November 19, which is the largest collection exhibition of the Powerlong Museum to date. Spanning a century, the exhibition features more than 150 works of art from different countries, tracing the history of the resonance of The road to Chinese art modernization and the process of Social Modernization in China over the past century. "Modern Pulse" comes from history and also indicates the future trend of moving forward, presenting an artistic feast that connects the past and the future and radiates China and the world.
Poster for "The Pulse of Modernity: Powerlong Art Exhibition"
Focusing on "modernity", an exhibition looks at the artistic moments of a century of history
The collection system established by The Powerlong Art Museum in Shanghai has continued from the mid-19th century to the present, while radiating the world from China in the spatial dimension, this trajectory coincides with China's modernization process, and this "Modern Pulse: Powerlong Art Exhibition" unfolds the collection history of the Powerlong Museum. The exhibition selects more than 150 works by domestic and foreign artists from the rich collection, from Qi Baishi's "The End of the World - Landscape Album" created around 1931 to Kaws's "Peak Circuit Turn" in 2020, spanning nearly 100 years. This century is equally closely related to modern times, and the exhibition title "Pulse of Modernity" means to reveal the historical value and genealogy of the Powerlong Museum's collections – art has not been absent in the course of nearly a hundred years.
Qi Baishi is within reach of the end of the world
Kaws peak loop turn
"Looking back at the past - basing on the present - facing the future", a long scroll looks at the road of cultural exchange
The exhibition begins with the "Library Building" art collection as the narrative, takes the road of Chinese art modernization spanning a hundred years as a time clue, focuses on China's "modernization" demands that began in modern times, after experiencing a drastic, revolutionary and tortuous process of Chinese modernization, an internalized modernity experience shown in contemporary China, and as a self-nature tradition of looking back at the past, basing itself on the contemporary and facing the future, under the background of globalization, exploring a chinese art museum system. An equal path of cultural exchange with sequences of different civilizations. The exhibition unfolds like a long scroll of art, allowing the audience to stand on the visual cultural history of Modern and Contemporary China, feel the charm of art itself, and witness the historical collection of art moments in the past hundred years.
Powerlong Museum Of Art No. 1 Circular Exhibition Hall -1
Powerlong Art Museum, No. 1 Circular Exhibition Hall-2
Six clues, a feast for more than 100 domestic and foreign artists
The Pulse of Modernity: The Baolong Art Exhibition is opened with six exhibition units, namely: "Inner Modernity", "Universal World", "Flowing Image", "Vortex of Time", "Paradigm and Situation", "Self-Nature and Empathy".
Zhang Zikang, chief curator, said: "From the six clues to review the collection genealogy of Baolong Art Museum, it is not difficult to find its overall characteristics, its local actions and global vision make Baolong Art Museum a sample of China's modern private art museums, collection is a tribute to art and history, but also full of the museum's reverence for civilization, especially also reflects the museum's sense of responsibility for culture, sense of mission, and cultural ambition." ”
"Inner Modernity" mainly presents the resonance of the times between Chinese art and modernization between the state and society, and the works included are works by artists such as Yan Wenliang, Liu Jun, Cai Guoqiang, Xue Song, Ding Yi, Huang Yuxing and other artists;
Cai Guoqiang there is no our Bund
The "universal world" focuses on the dialectical image of globalization, a world that combines subtle differences with macroscopic panoramas, presenting Yayoi Kusama, Pat Steir, Vicente Manansala, Haroshi, Joel Mesler, Barry Mcgee, and Yuichi Hiriko hirako), kaws, anselm kiefer, Yin Chaoyang and other artists;
Vicente Manassala Bazaar
"Fluid Images" focuses on presenting the "image of people" in different eras and different cultural contexts to suggest the characteristics of mobility in the era of globalization, and this unit presents Alex Katz, George W. Bush, and others. Works by artists such as George Condo, Takashi Murakami, Antony Gormley, Tomokazu Matsuyama, etc.;
Alex Katz Untitled Beach Scene
"The Vortex of Time" takes the "Library Building" art collection as the main body of the exhibition, and shows different era customs and public memories through painting. There are works by artists such as Changyu Fujita Sijita (tsuguharu foujita), Lin Fengmian, Feng Zikai, Xie Zhiliu, Lu Yushao, Zhang Xiaogang, Liu Ye and other artists;
Lin Fengmian scenery
"Paradigm and Situation" and "Self-Nature and Empathy" are two exhibition units with Chinese painting as the main body, complementing each other, the former mainly presents the "landscape painting" as a high-level art genre of Chinese painting, the paradigm change required by different eras in the process of China's modernization, presenting works including Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong, Zhang Daqian, Wu Hufan, Li Keyan and other painters; the latter mainly takes the lyrical tradition of Chinese poetry connotations of Chinese painting as a clue, and the dialectical imagery of epic and lyrical, reality and romance. It is interpreted as an empathy mechanism that sublimates in life and transcends the limitations of time and space, and recognizes its own internal "Chineseness" from the perspective of the will to life. The unit presents works by artists such as Guan Liang, Wu Guanzhong, Huang Yin, Liu Danzhai, Huang Yongyu, Fan Zeng, Xu Lei and others. In addition, the unit presents dialogues from artists from different cultural backgrounds, truly illustrating self-nature and empathy in the form of dialogue and pair painting, including dialogues between Artists Chen Peiqiu, David Hockney, Wayne thiebaud, damien Hirst.
Three leaps and bounds, participating in the construction of contemporary visual culture history
The Powerlong Museum of Art is based on a collection spanning a hundred years, and the collection exhibition of the permanent library building in the museum is a rare initiative in private art museums. Since its opening in 2017, Shanghai Powerlong Art Museum has been based on improving its own collections, focusing on building an academic system of art research from modern to contemporary based on the collection system. From personal collections to corporate collections, from corporate collections to art museum collections, to this large-scale art museum collection exhibition based on academic combing and research, Powerlong continues to use art to promote the improvement of social creativity. "Modern Pulse: Powerlong Art Exhibition" is the effort of Powerlong Art Museum to actively participate in the construction of contemporary visual culture history and actively participate in the forefront of the creative picture that resonates with the times, it is not only an exhibition, but also the starting point for Powerlong Art Museum to achieve another leap forward.
Carry forward the essence of traditional culture and promote the development of contemporary art
Shanghai Powerlong Art Museum was founded under the guidance of Mr. Xu Jiankang, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Powerlong Group, under the spiritual guidance of "promoting the essence of traditional culture and promoting the development of contemporary art", focusing on modern and contemporary art. The purpose of the establishment of The Powerlong Art Museum is to let more people appreciate the cultural charm, cultivate people's sentiments through appreciation of beauty, enlighten people's minds, enhance people's connotations, and establish higher ideals and pursuits.
Shanghai Baolong Art Museum openly builds China's art system from modern to contemporary, focuses on international art exhibitions, strives to build an art stage where tradition and modernity, East and West meet, promotes close interaction between domestic and foreign artists and art institutions, and makes the art museum a platform for cultural and artistic exchanges connecting the world.
Powerlong Museum of Art
The Pulse of Modernity: Powerlong Art Exhibition
Exhibition period: November 19, 2021 - May 18, 2022
Venue: Powerlong Art Museum (No. 3055 Caobao Road, Minhang District, Shanghai)
Chief Curator: Zhang Zikang
Chief Planner: Xu Hualin
Curator: Sun Dongdong
Space Design: Liang Chen
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