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Artists: Gao Feng, Hao Liang, He Jian, Yao Lu

As China opened up to the rest of the world, a generation of artists born in the 70's had grown up in an internationalised environment far from the Cultural Revolution. This radical social evolution brought new references as well as new problems in the country's artistic production. Rapid westernisation created a feeling of alienation for a lot of Chinese, and the development of a new model that did not take root in the country's tumultuous history necessitated a search for identity for many artists. Some have decided to fill the gap between Chinese Painting and Chinese contemporary culture, rewriting a new history of Chinese art, a more linear one, avoiding Cultural Revolution and Social-Realism elements to integrate a Chinese tradition in contemporary art. The artists exhibited by Art+Shanghai Gallery in "Hou Chuantong" (Post-Traditional) are a few examples of this movement. Hou Chuantong is attempting to show the audience a few elements of this new artistic movement. The curatorial focus was on artists using different mediums and coming from different regions of China to demonstrate the diversity and the extensive development of these new preoccupations. These artists, disconnected from the Cultural Revolution which they did not experience are critical towards artists still using its symbols as outdated gimmicks. Those artists who are questioning contemporary China are looking to establish a link between a long Chinese history and contemporary art. Being that China is still in its modernity, the post-modern criticism of China's modernisation we see from artists turns out to be post-traditional, using a well-known but forgotten vocabulary to analyse and criticize the world they are now living in.

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7 months, 1 week ago

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Featuring works by post-traditional Chinese artists Gao Feng, Hao Liang, He Jian and Yao Lu, this exhibition focuses on different mediums and backgrounds to demonstrate the extensive development of Chinese art post-Cultural Revolution.