“345°—Shanghai Fresh Art Exhibition” Opens from July 28 to August 28, 2007 atShanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art ( 27.Duolun Rd. 1F,2F,3F Close to SIchuan Bei Rd), and produced by Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art and Shanghai JingZhe Art Association .“345°—Shanghai Fresh Art Exhibition” seeks to enrich the term “fresh art”, which is fully exposed to public debate right now. As a platform with official background, from its start Duolun has been devoting to constructive work, focusing on the development of contemporary art in China, especially the existence of emerging young artists. In Duolun Museum, consistent effort has been made to support young artists, with the hope to turn the museum into a vast scene to display their art works, and build a bridge between the artists and the public. To sum up, we would like to set up an exhibition system truly for the young artists with the Fresh Art Exhibition.Most of the participating artists into Shanghai Fresh Art Exhibition were born in around the 80’s, and were accepted as excellent young artists of Neozoic era at home. With rich imagination and powerful creativity, they splash their personality and demonstrate their independent thinking in their works. The creation generally pays keen attention to the declaration of personal feelings and memories of fashionable way of living, which consequently brings lots of personal touch to the delicate and lively pictures, hence capable of triggering innermost spiritual resonance among the audience. This exhibition tries to give a stage for the diversity of their characteristic creation from many angles, striving to present the latest development of these young artists of Neozoic era in China. After the collecting work for more than half the year, the artists involved have been through the first and second round contests and 58 of them finally made their way into this exhibition. From this time, an agency named “New Fresh Art Base” specifically responsible for academic plotting and market publicity will be set up to draft plans for the organization and execution of annual project series, to form a powerful pushing hand behind New Fresh Art Exhibition.“345°—Shanghai Fresh Art Exhibition” of this year is co-organized by Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai Jingzhe Art Association and Italy Present International Multiform Art. The theme title “345°” primarily communicates the message that this is a process of exploring and searching, a state of being progressing, while bearing the expectation of achieving 360°perfection. There are roughly two sectors in the exhibition scene, oil painting and sculpture, occupying the 1st, 2nd, and 6th floors of the museum, and we aim to push forward diverse creation and research among young Chinese artists, to give concern to young artists’ experience of art for today, to explore the new moving trend among them, to strengthen academic guidance, and to facilitate the exchange of art creation.This is a fresh exhibition. A statement of youthful personality!Once again young artists become the leading roles and the focus of public concern in museum.Stay close to the spirit of the times, report individual space, show the lovely passion and ambitious dreams of the artists of a younger generation, and document the sensitiveness, self-consciousness, and personality.To discover and foster young artists, to create a platform for their talents, and to offer a chance for them to exert their unique imagination, all these would be the goal of this exhibition.