Maze Painting Series by Yun Minjun

For three days from April 19th to 21st, 2011, a special installation entitled Pure Views will be held at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco which includes over eighty artworks by twenty of China’s most celebrated and emerging artists.

This collaborative exhibition has been coordinated by the Louise Blouin Foundation (UK) and the Institutions of Chinart (China) from October to December in 2010 at the Louise Blouin Foundation in London, which demonstrated the movements of Chinese artists in this fresh historical period.

The response to the exhibition has prompted many letters of support and contact from collectors and art lovers home and abroad as they were so impressed by the works as well as the innovative mood expressed by contemporary Chinese art. However, the theme raised by this exhibition needs to be further investigated to establish the preparation and timing of these works. Thus Pure Views: New Painting from China at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco will be recognised as a further expansion of current painting from China.

Pure Views has taken its’ name from a work of art by Song Dynasty painter Xia Gui (1195-1224) and presents a diverse group of living Chinese painters’ reflections on their shared artistic heritage in the context of an ever-changing global environment. Four of these artists—Hong Lei, Wang Guangyi, Yue Minjun and Zhou Chunya, along with critic Liu Chun and curator Lu Peng—will gather in a lively panel discussion about art in China today.

Plan on Dong Qichang by Shang Yang

Studying the Criminal Law in the Valley by Pan Jian

Dusk of Patriarchy by Mao Xuhui

Drawing of Taiga & Open Field by BeiSong DynastyArtist Li Cheng Remade with Acrylics on canvas by Yang Mian 280X140CM 2010

Nightwalking with Candle by Ma Lin 2010

Curator: Lu Peng, Bai Hua

Artists: Cao Jingping, Fang Lijun, Guo Jin, Guo Wei, He Sen, Hong Lei, Li Qing, Li Rui, Luo Quanmu, Pan Jian, Shang Yang, Shen Na, Shen Xiaotong, They, Tang Ke, Tu Hongtao，Wang Guangyi, Yang Mian, Yang Qian, Yang Xun, Ye Yong Qing, Yue Minjun, Zhang Xiaogang, Zhang Jian, and Zhou Chunya.

Opening Date: 18 April, 2011

Cocktail Party: 6:00 PM on 21 April, 2011

Academic Event: 20 April, 2011 - Lecture Hall, University of California, Berkeley

22 April, 2011 - Stanford University

Venue: Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA

Organizer: Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA

Co-organizer and Sponsor: iCulture and Instituation of Chinart