WORK IN SPREADING: TRANSMIT AND TRANSLATE THE IMAGES (group)

OVERVIEW

EXHIBITION SYNOPSIS

“Project”, the central column of Contemporary Art & Investment ever since its first publication in January 2007, is dedicated to introducing to readers the emerging artists’ work through the presentation of their artistic intentions and creation. It aims at exploring, investigating and showcasing the most experimental and talented Chinese artists of the younger generation. Nearly three years on, “Project” has featured 37 artists /teams across mainland China, Taiwan and overseas.

The editing work for “Project” seeks to give a clean-cut presentation of the core dimensions of the artist’s work, namely, to unveil the factors making on-going experiments and concept-centered thinking possible, and furthermore to dissect the process of artistic creation. The concept of the column has been evolving from “the birth of a new work” in 2007 to “a holistic study of artist’s work”.

As the mission of the magazine, we tend to present to our readers contemporary art in an experimental and interdisciplinary way. It is our aspiration to create a magazine free from conventional definitions, so that the essence of the magazine can develop to an active and open independent voice. It is not only a cold, passive paper medium, but a framework based on which exhibitions, activities, publishing, and many other options could be opened up. We could call this exhibition a “Magazine –Exhibition practice”.

From December 2009 to January 2010, the exhibition “Work in Progress: How Do Artists Work?” initiated by CONTEMPORARY ART & INVESTMENT and Iberia Center for Contemporary Art was the first exhibition that successfully implemented the “Magazine – Curating practice” concept. The exhibition “Work in Spreading: Images of Circulation and Retranslation” which will be launched on September 18th 2010 is based on the studies done by the column “project” in 2010. It focuses on the relationship between the concept of the work and its physical form when the art work is being exhibited or published. That is: work and work in spreading.