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Access to the reality and hope
Chang Suk Won
I saw many people who went to work in the morning when I had invited Beijing 10 years before. There was little signal lamps at the road and dust storm blew.In the day, there were a few men who had drunken and put on laborer clothes sleeping on the rear car. It seemed that they warned about foreigners because it was not long time that china opened to the outside world.
Beijing today have changed significantly. High building and apartments have been increased and we can see a large number of cars running out on the street. Also many shopping centersand Mcdonald's, SIMENS, IKEA etc. multinational companies and capitals are settled in and new economic municipal cities have come into being.The improvement of 798-centric china modern art have become an international focus recent years. China special modern pop as a core, it has brought up many Chinese famous artists. They had worked out high price works business and the booming of vigorous development appealed international views. How have china achieved so much significant changes in such a short time since Comrade Deng xiaoping announced that china open to the outside world? I was interested in such a miserable idea and invited Beijing. I have been to 798, Songzhuang,Caochangdi, Huantie, 318 etc Beijing art area for a few months. I have experienced tremendous scales and international influences, capability etc. Beijing is constructed as international modern art center rapidly. We can see the main stream in the 798 area where concentrates international art galleries. It shows the emergency of scales, quantity and variety etc. Here I saw Shirin Neshat's video works and the works of Yang xiaobin who was a famous artist that wrote a real works which introduced the story of dangerous coal mine. There held an architecture show and I saw the performance of Frog King who came from Hongkong. I saw Alessandro’s works. He came from Milan, Italy and had stayed Beijing 798 zone for about 5 years and made his decoration works. At there, I was acquainted with Chen Laotie who displayed modern nonobjectivism outstanding drawing works which drown out from traditional art. Fortunately, at this place, I also have seen Japanese woman drawer Megumi Shimizu who is famous for her real node performance at the European artist's opening show.
It was also happy time for me to watch the stage playact that is made by exciting and characteristic artist Zu Pingat Songzhuang ceremony period time. That stage playact was arranged at a studio and performed sexual ecstacy. Chen xi who introduced me to artist Zu ping, he was also in my heart. He is Songzhuang artist and good at drawing and painting of artist portrait.At that period, Tian mangzi’s solo exhibition was also inspired me. He painted one big apple on the canvas and thought that is the earth. He thinks that art is the way for doing new and innovative things. It is also my great fortune to meet a woman artist He chengyao again who makes great role in china performance history. She moved from Huajiadi to Songzhuang 6 years ago. She had been to Busan, Korea. She slivered fish and recited poem. The silence and performance on the sea remained deeply impression.
In Huantie area, I met artist Pan singlei who had taken part in banding head and fast struggle for democracy as a student of the institute of central art at Tiananmen event. He was located in Hongkong, NewYork afterwards and then went back to china and acted as an engraver. He have planed Chinese character viennial exhibition in Huantie zone recently. When he lived in Hongkong, Pan went to the Victoria park and painted all the body with red colour which was a symbol colour of china .He jumped onto the statue of queen. He was arrested and stayed in prison for one month at that time.
In Caochangdi area, I visited workroom of Ma yongfeng，the artist who deal with big size photo to work out traditional natural model and Chinese modernism, the values that happened because of the difference of concept in reality. He showed me a video that described goldfish breathing after whirling in the washing machine and the water had run out.
I deeply remembered all the memories that had taken place for last a few months. There were so many different art customs and other types that I had not felt in Korea. It perhaps one of Chinese section that positively be eager for the future and repeat at the social contradiction. Also perhaps it is an art prejudice that gathered the gorgeous light section which reveals to the outside with the section of gloom shadow existence. The normal function and abnormal function of country mechanism operates at the same time and it also desires Social stability and capitalistic prosperity simultaneously. So the artists could not avoid what to say and what to do here. The society that artists leaved just like the dead society. It is not a bad news to emphasize to say reality for Beijing artists and it is also regretful that only a few artists can say reality. If it was satisfied with gorgeous easily sale pop works, Chinese modern art would have no consequence at the end. Chinese modern art should not avoid the contradiction, when it brings to bear real art nature and creativity in the contradiction, it would have real power.
I explained the situation to the authors for exhibition objection as below. That is effective until to feel that Beijing’s winter is not so cold.
"Is Beijing winter so cold and it hardly bear? It seems that Beijing social order is ruled normally and stable. If a critic from Korea select artists whom working in Beijing and plan an exhibition, that means, he will be against with cultural situation that have taken place here. We can see the art international centralized situation that have taken place in 798 zone as the situation that come into being modern art center with the definition of Asia new economic zone center. It is not easy to form international art center naturally in Asia zone. It is perhaps the recognition of forming all Asia for one art pan. Asia art market's simplification and centralization appearance that taken place here will accelerate its speed.
Chinese modern art has short history and maintains so vigorous situation. It is incompatible and it reveals the shortage of Chinese modern culture. As the contradiction that we can not comprehend, it is not a problem when we see it in views of Chinese long history and unlimited capability. It will emerge sharply and perhaps reveals as a problem hard to suppress.
The art should be wake up in reality that the dominated capitals and power obstruct. The art should change them, this point is unchangeable. We want to feel very warm Beijing winter. Meanwhile, we wish this exhibition will be planed and remembered as a signal first step that will leading us to the warm place. "
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