Sino-Spanish art show 'Art Warming' at the Shanghai
2007-07-13 11:08:07 未知
A Sino-Spanish art show called "Art Warming" is about globalized, digitalized art, new media and big frontiers. There's no more canvas and paint, but computer terminals and LCDs. Gone is the individual, replaced by the group concept, writes Zhou Tao."Art Warming" ,a stimulating Sino-Spanish art show, is about a brave, new globalized, digitalized art world. That world is undergoing the digital revolution, it's a seething hot pot of community artists with new proposals, opinions and voices.Organizers of the show at the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art say it was difficult to find a name to convey both the global process we are living in and the huge power that lies behind it.Now the show seeks to highlight issues such as globalization in a digitalized background. The globalization process in art and its tools understood by all of us diminish the still-existing distinctions regarding an artist's race, language and gender.New media are familiar to everyone: Internet, video, TV, games, software, music. The tools to create them today are all based on the language of computers that allow artists to use text images, audio and video materials.The material support is not anymore the canvas, a wall or paper, but the monitor of a computer or an LCD.Interactivity is always characteristic of digital art, it is not enough anymore to passively observe, watch or feel a piece of art. The spectator needs to involve himself or herself in the piece, one needs to take part in the work by listening, watching and sometimes even touching.The old concept of an individual artist is being replaced by a group or concept.This collective is also reflected in this exhibition since most of the artists belong to an artistic group. They are becoming more powerful working as a group than as an individual. The outcome is richer projects regarding both forms and contents.The exhibition opens at 27 Duolun Rdthrough July 25 (closed on Mondays).In this sense, Chinese artist Xponja offers a series of dynamic works, most of them inspired by ancient stories, legends and fairytales.It proves that the reinterpretation of old cultural concepts using modern 2D and 3D techniques is absolutely possible, and if brilliant computer images are not supported by equally brilliant ideas, their life span is very limited.On the other hand, Spanish Rodriguez Foundation participates with works of a more critical nature. Using a video camera and the TV as the means to show it, Rodriguez Foundation created "TV Interventions." It is critical of many of our society's concepts, such as traditionally assigned roles and the power of language. It questions the influence and messages of TV news programs over the past 10 years.Maria Caxas and Grupo Zemos 98, southern Spain video artists, present experimental video works. In Moribundia, Caxas pays homage to the bull, who had no choice but to accept its death.In "The Bull's Revenge," she transforms the bull into the main character by combining bull attacks on matadors with scenes of old audiences cheering other events and allows the bull to take his revenge for having been the chosen victim.Thus as people go more deeply into the realms of digital art and new media art, one can see that the art world is undergoing a change.
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