The first part stats with the artists of war-time generation determined to forge a new and direct relationship between the canvas and the works including those from Kazuo Shiraga, Atsuko Tanaka, etc.
The second part of the exhibition would have the artists who approached to insight and how they sought epistemological proofs of their own relationship between the world and the self, through an intense focus on materiality, and the works including those from Lee Ufan, Kishio Suga. Followed this concern, in young upcoming artists including Liu Wei, Lui Chun Kwong, Kohei Nawa and so on, their practices which present less-direct yet arguably equally profound relationships with the weight of corporeality and the digital environment.
Liu Wei, Purple Clouds, 2009; Oil on canvas, 180x440cm
Zhu Dequn, Being Steady, 1997; Oil on canvas, 130x195cm
Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin A, 1991; Acrylic on canvas, 91x72.7cm
In the third part, after Yayoi Kusama, Yoshitomo Nara and Ma Junfu open apertures leading from the imaginary to the actual, via subconscious image, amorphous indeterminate forms, and "children's", and vernacular perspectives, improvisation and seemingly off-handed, graffiti-like methods.
In this contemporary Asian art presentation, beginning with a sense of corporeality, the intense sense of environment and temporality, the texture of the un-finished and improvisational, to stimulate the imagination of the viewer in fresh new forms.
About the exhibition
Dates: Nov 28, 2015 — Feb 28, 2016
Opening: Nov 27, 2015 17:00
Organizer: Long Museum
Venue: Long Museum West Bund Gallery 1
Curator: Yuko Hasegawa
Courtesy of the artists and Long Museum, for further information please visit http://thelongmuseum.org.
