After Magee Art Gallery(Beijing)entered 798 Art District in May, our first exhibition will be opened in October 18 after four months’ preparation. The exhibition is named “Landscape Topology” and it invites young artists Cui Xiuwen, Dong Wensheng, Gao Shiqiang, Jiang Zhi, Li Chao, Li Xiaosong, Ma Qiusha, Tu Hongtao, Wu Guangyu and Zhao Zhao to participate. There are 13 works exhibited including painting, photography and video installation. Magee Art Gallery (Beijing) attempts to continue to devote itself to the development of contemporary Chinese art through this exhibition with academic content, unique angle and young energy.

Exhibition Introduction:

Since the beginning of the intentional description (appreciation and aesthetic portray) of history by human beings, landscape/nature has never been ignored. The creation of art in related to landscape later developed into a major category after the classification of art. As a very important part of the basic materials of artists, landscape is described again and again. Because of its abundant linguistic meaning, landscape was once used for metaphorizing social reality. It is often referred as landscape in close relation to people’s participation result in a social meaning. In the field of contemporary art where conception is admired, landscape often becomes a metaphor for conservative and inferior force in the eyes of radical artists and is seldom mentioned. Even if it appears in some historical narration, it is usually at the edge of historical analysis.

As the opening exhibition of Magee Art Gallery (Beijing), the landscape discussed by “Landscape Topology” is not a pure and single landscape in an absolute sense. However, landscape/natural environment occupy important length of writing in the structure of these works. What is obvious is that they are not creations with the initial intention to directly interpret “landscape”. Some of these works are creations using natural landscape as media; some discuss how