SAGYA ZHANG XIAOTAO SOLO EXHIBITION
Aug 20 - Oct 10, 2011
Aug 20 - Oct 10, 2011
Press Release
SAGYA ZHANG XIAOTAO SOLO EXHIBITION
SAGYA ANIMATION 15'06'' 2011
CURATOR: Cecilia Freschini (Italy)
Art Director:Gu Zhenqing
PRESENTED BY: Sun Yongzeng
EXHIBITION DIRECTOR: Dai Zhuoqun
ASSISTANT CURATORS: Hao Danmeng, LI Yunxia
PUBLIC RELATIONS: Wu Wei
SPONSOR: WHITE BOX MUSEUM OF ART
OPENING: 4pm.Aug 20(Sat), 2011
DATES: August 20, 2011 - October 10, 2011
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VENUE: WHITE BOX MUSEUM OF ART, 798 Art Dist., NO.2 Jiu Xianqiao Road, Chaoyang Dist., Beijing, China
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Curator Article
Mapping new aesthetic territories
Cecilia Freschini （Italy）
Since science, art and technology began to be connected each other, cooperating and starting to use electronic instruments to create art and a new way to perform it, it has been defining a new aesthetic with strong and deep visual innovations. Our new visual thinking is, now, extraordinarily flexible, able to range within limits incredibly vast and to amplify the area of invention and creativity enormously.
We are facing a huge cyberspace where the mind strays easily between past and future and draws on emotions and sensations never experienced before. To become aware of these changes may mean going into unknown territories. So we have to change lots of parameters and modify ours knowledge in order to rearranging most of accepted notions concerning contemporary art.
Actually, China seems to be the proper territory for experimentation and without any doubt, this seems to be very clear to Zhang Xiaotao. In fact, he shows to be aware about this peculiarity by directing his own researches into this waysince years, providing a new impetus to the artistic international practice. He has the ability to be in tune with our present time and being able to capture aspects that normally escape the normal understanding. Through the use of computers, Zhang opens new perspectives related with the near future, but also with the analysis and meaning of our past and present. Today, artists and archaeologists are turning towards each other to exchange experiences, narratives and revelations about our shared world, which is a palimpsest of temporalities, both things from the past and phenomena of today, but also possibilities for the future.
Sakya is a cross-media visual cultural research project that had started in 2007. This work looks especially at the issue of the secularization of religion from the intersection of Tibetology, archaeology, anthropology, Tibetan Buddhism, regional politics and other fields as digital technology, science and biology. Here, Zhang touches on new fields of study. Taking on the complex challenge, he focuses his attention on society through the practices of contemporary art: the technological capabilities are torn in their usual meaning and delivered to the sacred where there are rediscovering their own being. With Sakya animation, Zhang Xiaotao analyses the paradox between the transcendental matter and the materialized reality. He brings the vast religious state of Tibetan Buddhism to compare with today’s materialism culture. The massive problem is that we really live capriciously enmeshed in a world of things, in a beautiful mirage of the materialism where our spirits lies in the wilderness. The important issue that Zhang Xiaotao deeply takes into consideration is the soul restoration. This mystic factor is present both in his daily life and in his art research. He looks for understanding of the phenomena that concern life, believing that the reconstruction of morals and faith-based values is an important remedy for society.
