An exhibition where science, thoughts, arts meet
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TO lovers of contemporary art, Le Fresnoy must ring a bell.
Founded in 1997 in Tourcoing, a city in northern France, Le Fresnoy is the most important modern audio-visual art creation center and academy of arts in Europe. It has fostered many outstanding artists who are active in the field of contemporary arts.
Perhaps that’s the reason why Pearl Art Museum launched a new media digital art exhibition “Re(Model) The World: 20 Years of Digital Creation of Le Fresnoy, National Studio for Contemporary Arts” to celebrate its first anniversary.
A cooperation between the museum and Le Fresnoy, the exhibition invited nearly 20 artists from all over the world to tell their stories of a technology-shaped future to the visitors.
The artists presented 20 digital artworks to the exhibition.
“We hope that this exhibition will be a show where science, thoughts and arts meet and where the audience can experience the future,” said Li Dandan, the museum’s director.
Focusing on graphics, sound and communication technologies, the artworks displayed at this exhibition use, switch and divert such technologies to observe, contemplate and reshape the world — presenting the world in a digitalized and new way, echoing the theme of the exhibition: re(model) the world.
Some works combine traditional technologies (16 mm film and daguerreotype) with digital technologies; some put in mixed videos, film special effects, composite images, photogrammetry and 3D scanning; some use cutting-edge technologies, such as motion capture and interaction, or use a photography machine that is capable of recognizing 2,000 images per second, or other terms such as nano photography, nano carving, infrared imaging and algorithms.
The highlight of the exhibition goes to “Correspondance,” an interactive work and a performance created by Chinese artist Chen Junkai.
Born in Shanghai in 1987, Chen, a young artist living in France, earned a master’s degree from Villa Arson’s National School of Fine Arts of Nice in France.
In 2017, he obtained the third-stage “Post Master-class Diploma” at Le Fresnoy National Studio of Contemporary Arts.
Chen has been conducting unique research and creation in the field of tech-based art.
His works have a strong sense of on-site creation, with the artist also a part of the works. The unique performance makes his works quite refreshing.
In “Correspondance,” Chen draws freely on two poems — one French: “Correspondances” by Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), and the other Chinese: “The Torrent with Bird Song” by Wang Wei (699-759). Innovative interactive devices are used to complete this installation with performative moments.
The use of acoustic instruments and digital projection help to create a real-time audiovisual symphony. Capturing the performer’s movements gives his work a choreographic dimension combining gesture, image and sound. The body thus becomes a tool, like the painter’s brush or conductor’s baton.
The artist interrogates his sensorial and spiritual experience in relation to these two artistic and cultural worlds which he inhabits. Another impressive piece is “L’Empire Detroit,” an interactive installation that provides immersion and reflection on the theme of ruins created by Liu Zhenchen. Also born in Shanghai in 1976, Liu received a “Post-Diplome” at Le Fresnoy in 2007.
Since last year, he has received a long list of awards and presented his works on both film and visual arts platforms, including the Locarno Film Festival, the Oberhausen Film Festival, the Rencontres d’Arles Photo Festival, the “Nuit Blanche” in Paris, the Transmediale in Berlin, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
His installation plays with the idea on how human beings with their sensitive presence can impact on a place when they are traveling in a ruin.
In fact, this exhibition is all about a world remodeled by the artists.
As Marcel Proust once said, “Through art alone we are able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon.”
Date: Through March 3, 2019 (closed on Mondays), 10am-7pm; Saturday-Sunday 10am-10pm
Venue: 8/F, Aegean Place
Address: 1588 Wuzhong Rd
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