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Spellbound – Guan Wei 2011 Solo Exhibition at OCAT
Press Release
Host: He Xiang Ning Art Museum, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal
Curator: Huang Zhuan
Support: Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Corporation, ltd.
Australian Embassy in China, Australian Consulate in Guangzhou
Special Thanks: Waratah Paint (Shenzhen) Company Limited
Duration: April 30 to June 15, 2011
Location: Main Exhibition Hall, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal
The “Spellbound – Guan Wei 2011 Solo Exhibition at OCAT”, hosted by OCT Contemporary Art Terminal and curated by Huang Zhuan, will be held at the OCT Contemporary Art Terminal from April 30 to June 15, 2011. The exhibition enjoys the support and sponsorship of the Australian Embassy in China and the Australian Consulate in Guangzhou, and has been listed as a key project in the “Year of Australian Culture.”
Guan Wei is one of the most important contemporary artists of Chinese descent in Australia. He took part in China’s modernist art movement in the 1980s. Upon immigrating to Australia in the late 80s, he began melding the cultures of Australia and China, exploring the circumstances and diverse potentials of different civilizations against the backdrop of globalization. Using epics, legends, mythological narratives and grand spaces, his artworks present an image of the world that juxtaposes history and reality, experience and transcendence, conflict and confluence. His reserved, humorous style gives his works an air of effortlessness as he tackles these heavy topics. He has appeared multiple times at important international exhibitions such as the Asia Pacific Triennial and the Shanghai Biennial, either as an independent artist or a representative of Australia. He has spent much time moving back and forth between Australia and China in recent years, and “Spellbound” is one of his most important solo exhibitions to be held in China recently.
“Spellbound” is an allusion to the fate of the universe, a civilization or a specific people to repeatedly run in circles. Man is burdened with this fate, wandering around among different cultures, pacing back and forth in a world full of allure, only to end up back where he began. “Spellbound” hopes to use an ultimately questioning method to imaginatively recreate this cursed trajectory.
“Spellbound” is presented in the form of circular walls. In the 1300 square meter exhibition space at OCAT, the exhibition space is arranged as three rings. The first ring comprises the four main inside walls of the exhibition hall, representing the stars of the cosmos, ancient creation myths, and the mysterious Milky Way and constellations. The second ring is painted on the outside of four round walls in the middle of the exhibition space, representing the lands, seas and islands of the world, and its mysterious flora, fauna, boats and people, as they seek out their homelands through confusion and fear. The third ring is on the inside of the four curved walls, representing the mysterious spellbound, and bearing all manner of spiritual markers created by man, such as ancient signs, divination marks, channels, DNA codes and spells. The three rings coincide with heaven, earth and mankind. With rings encircling rings encircling rings, it becomes a repeating, circling “spell.” Moving, migrating, drifting through various cultural circumstances, the artwork presents the new process of synthesis created by globalization in a panoramic perspective. The artwork draws comprehensively from various sources, using everything from Chinese folk divination symbols to the constellations of Islamic and Western culture, ancient navigation charts and massive Hollywood production techniques to knock down the single unit structure of culture, using eastern philosophical and metaphysical approaches to intelligently and humorously unfold this grand panorama of the universe and the world.
The artist and four assistants from China and Australia will use one month to complete a massive fresco in the exhibition space. Most of the artwork will be destroyed when they finish.
Press Release
Host: He Xiang Ning Art Museum, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal
Curator: Huang Zhuan
Support: Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Corporation, ltd.
Australian Embassy in China, Australian Consulate in Guangzhou
Special Thanks: Waratah Paint (Shenzhen) Company Limited
Duration: April 30 to June 15, 2011
Location: Main Exhibition Hall, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal
The “Spellbound – Guan Wei 2011 Solo Exhibition at OCAT”, hosted by OCT Contemporary Art Terminal and curated by Huang Zhuan, will be held at the OCT Contemporary Art Terminal from April 30 to June 15, 2011. The exhibition enjoys the support and sponsorship of the Australian Embassy in China and the Australian Consulate in Guangzhou, and has been listed as a key project in the “Year of Australian Culture.”
Guan Wei is one of the most important contemporary artists of Chinese descent in Australia. He took part in China’s modernist art movement in the 1980s. Upon immigrating to Australia in the late 80s, he began melding the cultures of Australia and China, exploring the circumstances and diverse potentials of different civilizations against the backdrop of globalization. Using epics, legends, mythological narratives and grand spaces, his artworks present an image of the world that juxtaposes history and reality, experience and transcendence, conflict and confluence. His reserved, humorous style gives his works an air of effortlessness as he tackles these heavy topics. He has appeared multiple times at important international exhibitions such as the Asia Pacific Triennial and the Shanghai Biennial, either as an independent artist or a representative of Australia. He has spent much time moving back and forth between Australia and China in recent years, and “Spellbound” is one of his most important solo exhibitions to be held in China recently.
“Spellbound” is an allusion to the fate of the universe, a civilization or a specific people to repeatedly run in circles. Man is burdened with this fate, wandering around among different cultures, pacing back and forth in a world full of allure, only to end up back where he began. “Spellbound” hopes to use an ultimately questioning method to imaginatively recreate this cursed trajectory.
“Spellbound” is presented in the form of circular walls. In the 1300 square meter exhibition space at OCAT, the exhibition space is arranged as three rings. The first ring comprises the four main inside walls of the exhibition hall, representing the stars of the cosmos, ancient creation myths, and the mysterious Milky Way and constellations. The second ring is painted on the outside of four round walls in the middle of the exhibition space, representing the lands, seas and islands of the world, and its mysterious flora, fauna, boats and people, as they seek out their homelands through confusion and fear. The third ring is on the inside of the four curved walls, representing the mysterious spellbound, and bearing all manner of spiritual markers created by man, such as ancient signs, divination marks, channels, DNA codes and spells. The three rings coincide with heaven, earth and mankind. With rings encircling rings encircling rings, it becomes a repeating, circling “spell.” Moving, migrating, drifting through various cultural circumstances, the artwork presents the new process of synthesis created by globalization in a panoramic perspective. The artwork draws comprehensively from various sources, using everything from Chinese folk divination symbols to the constellations of Islamic and Western culture, ancient navigation charts and massive Hollywood production techniques to knock down the single unit structure of culture, using eastern philosophical and metaphysical approaches to intelligently and humorously unfold this grand panorama of the universe and the world.
The artist and four assistants from China and Australia will use one month to complete a massive fresco in the exhibition space. Most of the artwork will be destroyed when they finish.
