IBERIA CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
FACE CONTACT - BEIJING (group)
OVERVIEW
| Date | ... closes in 30 day(s)Apr 28, 2012 - Jun 24, 2012 |
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| Opening | Apr 28, 2012, 16:00, Saturday |
| Venue(s) |
Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) |
| Curator(s) | Gerardo Mosquera |
| Artist(s) | Liliana Angulo, Ananke Asseff, Beautifulagony.com, Jorge Brantmayer, Nancy Burson, Luis Camnitzer, Jeanette Chavez, Colectivo MR MR, Lucfosther Diop, Eugenio Dittborn, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Jerome Fortin, Shadi Ghadirian, Simryn Gill, Shilpa Gupta |
| Organizer(s) |
Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) |
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EXHIBITION SYNOPSIS
About Face Contact - BeijingFace Contact Beijing, the thematic exhibition of PHotoEspaña Festival 2011, frames the concept of "Interfaces: Portraiture and Communication" to which this Spanish event was dedicated in its last edition. This leading project, to be presented at Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, can be seen as continued exploration of the universal significance of portraiture and communication in our everyday life. In the active context of China, the discussion about photography, art and the contrast of what is both old and new, will create a humanistic effect different than in the West.
When working with an interface as a kind of portraiture, the "face", underlined in this exhibition as a means of human communication, tries to communicate with the viewer's face producing a new meaning derived from this communication. The viewer will work on the information got from the portraiture and will be projecting his (her) understanding and interpretation onto the "face" of the portraiture. The aim of this exhibition, as the focus of this extended field, is to examine the possibility of the communication between portraiture and the face by means of "interface" as an metaphor.
Face Contact Beijing will show the works of twenty nine international artists coming from different countries and backgrounds and working in different ways, but all devoted to the exploration of the multiple meanings of portraiture with concerted effort. Faces in images have long been used in communication to show dialogues between entities, and as an indication of the practical function of the face and portraiture in semantics.
Face Contact Beijing completely rejects to be an encyclopedic exhibition or to present one simplified theme, but it’s the result of a new curatorial practice. This practice, moreover, has changed the exhibition format in museum’s permanent collections. Like many other cultural discourses, the contemporary curatorial concepts, greatly influenced by post-structuralism and post-modernism, escape from the big narratives and focus on fragments, micro-politics and the heterodox and pluralistic tendencies.
As a conclusion, this exhibition, that focuses on the means of communication through portraiture from its interior elements, reveals the diversity, complexity and intensity of modern portraiture and aesthetics — the artists construct and deconstruct these portraitures with great freedom. Beyond their own space and significance, the images are also displayed for the double "face contact", which, like the project, can be viewed as an effort to build the continuity of vision in order to respond and to explore the discourse and imagination involved in contemporary portraiture.
ONGOING (1)
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Face Contact - Beijing
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2012.04.28 - 2012.06.24
... closes in 30 day(s)
Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)
2012 (2)
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Becoming Peninsula I: Symptoms
(solo)
2012.03.03 - 2012.04.03
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(21) -
Bald Girls
(group)
2012.03.03 - 2012.04.03
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(12)
2011 (11)
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Century - Gao Shiqiang’s Solo Exhibition
(solo)
2011.11.25 - 2012.02.19
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(11)(13) -
The Desire of Plants - Tu Hongtao’s Solo Exhibition
(solo)
2011.11.25 - 2012.02.19
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(14) -
You Don't Belong - Pasts Futures of Indian Cinema & India-China Dialogue On Film and Social Thought
(group)
2011.11.25 - 2011.11.28
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
The Distance of Reality - Solo Exhibition of Yang Fudong
(solo)
2011.10.04 - 2011.11.10
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (organiser) -
Crosshairs - An Exhibition of Small Scale Works on Easel
(group)
2011.09.17 - 2011.10.20
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(16) -
The Shape of Time - The Multi-Narrative History in Contemparary Chinese Art
(group)
2011.09.17 - 2011.10.20
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(22) -
No-Name Station (Australia ): China/Australia Cultural Exchange 2010
(group)
2011.07.30 - 2011.08.28
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (organiser) -
Fly Through the Tropo-Sphere - Memo of The New Generation Painting
(group)
2011.06.25 - 2011.08.27
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
Love and Hope - The Art World Assisting Children Affected by the Disasters in Japan
(group)
2011.05.05 - 2011.05.15
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(6) -
Comunidade De Gostos: Arte Contemporanea Chinesa desde 2000
(group)
2011.01.27 - 2011.03.27
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (organiser) -
Museum on Paper - Twelve Chinese Artists
(group)
2011.01.06 - 2011.03.20
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / co-organiser)(44)
2010 (22)
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Intrinity - The Confusion, Self Reflection and Insight in Li Chao's Three-Panel Works
(solo)
2010.11.20 - 2010.12.24
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
Imagen Local Chile Arte Actual Local Image Current Art In Chile
(solo)
2010.11.20 - 2010.12.22
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / co-organiser) -
Tranquilizing Room Homeland - Solo Exhibition of Dong Wensheng
(solo)
2010.11.14 - 2010.12.19
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (organiser) -
"The Dark Space: History and Reality - Solo Exhibition of Gao Shiqiang
(solo)
2010.11.14 - 2010.12.19
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No-Name Station (China): China/Australia Cultural Exchange 2010
(group)
2010.10.16 - 2010.11.14
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
Work in Spreading: Transmit and Translate the Images
(group)
2010.09.18 - 2010.10.12
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / co-organiser)(1)(26) -
DISCOVERIES: Re-Value@ShContemporary 2010 Shanghai Art Fair International Contemporary Art Exhibition
(art fair)
2010.09.09 - 2010.09.12
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (co-organiser)(1)(40)(24) -
Drift - Solo exhibition of Li Qing（Madrid)
(group)
2010.09.09 - 2010.10.19
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (organiser)(1)(32) -
Lights of August - Solo Exhibition of Soledad Sevilla
(solo)
2010.08.07 - 2010.09.12
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(19)(6) -
Community of Tastes: Chinese Contemporary Art since 2000
(group)
2010.08.05 - 2010.09.16
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (organiser) -
Change Heart Reading CO. : Jin Shi's Solo Exhibition
(solo)
2010.07.31 - 2010.09.05
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
Absolut Pina - Fotoausstellung von Gert Weigelt Filmreihe über Pina Bausch
(group)
2010.07.03 - 2010.07.25
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1) -
My University (1990-2010): Liu Dahong Shuangbai Studio
(solo)
2010.06.20 - 2010.07.25
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
Facade - Yin Zhaoyang Solo Exhibition (Shanghai)
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2010.06.14 - 2010.07.11
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (organiser)(1)(13)(21) -
Kalpastival of Photography - Chinese Artists at the 2nd MADRID FOTO
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2010.05.29 - 2010.06.27
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(16) -
Facade - Yin Zhaoyang Solo Exhibition (Beijing)
(solo)
2010.05.09 - 2010.06.09
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(24)(21) -
"Glass Factory - Art in the New Financial Era" Exhibition Forum - "EVERYTHING MUST GO" Session II：Critical Forms
(group)
2010.05.04 - 2010.05.04
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1) -
"Perspectives”: Academic Lecture Series Ⅱ About My Documentary
(solo)
2010.04.30 - 2010.04.30
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ICCA Film Archive Spring Screening (II) - Filmmaker in Focus: Hara Kazuo
(solo)
2010.04.27 - 2010.05.01
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / co-organiser) -
Eyes on the World: 2010 Non-Profit Organizations Documentary Film Beijing Spring Screening
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2010.04.16 - 2010.04.20
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (organiser)(1)(1) -
Glass Factory - Art in the New Financial Era
(group)
2010.04.15 - 2010.05.16
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(19) -
Asian Landmark - Toyota Art Project
(group)
2010.01.16 - 2010.02.28
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(10)(27)
2009 (12)
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Work in Progress: How Do Artists Work?
(group)
2009.12.05 - 2010.01.09
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / co-organiser)(1)(27) -
China, 2006 - Sun Jianchun Solo Exhibition
(solo)
2009.11.07 - 2009.11.27
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(29)(5) -
Wang Yin 2009
(solo)
2009.09.26 - 2009.11.22
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(14) -
Postcapital Archive 1989 - 2001
(solo)
2009.07.25 - 2009.08.30
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(20) -
Image Tricks - Han Lei + Photography
(group)
2009.07.25 - 2009.09.06
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (organiser)(1)(20) -
13 Month in the Year of the Dog
(group)
2009.06.13 - 2009.07.12
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1) -
Juvenilia - Constructing a Soul in Capitalist Societies
(solo)
2009.06.13 - 2009.07.12
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(8) -
Prague Biennale Art 4
(group)
2009.05.14 - 2009.07.26
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (organiser)(1)(17) -
The Other There : Solo Exhibition of Gao Shiqiang
(group)
2009.04.26 - 2009.06.20
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(44) -
The Face Without World - View: Solo Exhibition of Dong Wensheng
(solo)
2009.04.26 - 2009.06.20
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(11) -
Ghosting: Li Qing's Solo Exhibition
(solo)
2009.04.17 - 2009.05.03
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (organiser)(1) -
What Has Been Happening Here? - The Inaugural Exhibition of Chinese Independent Film Archive
(group)
2009.03.29 - 2009.04.19
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(28)
2008 (7)
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Ghosting: Li Qing's Solo Exhibition
(solo)
2008.11.29 - 2008.12.18
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1) -
Between Two Worlds: OUKA LEELE Solo Exhibition
(solo)
2008.10.25 - 2008.11.16
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(42) -
Microscopic Narration Social Images by Zhang Xiaotao and Li Yifan
(group)
2008.08.25 - 2008.10.04
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(41) -
Plus Marca Art and Sport
(group)
2008.07.20 - 2008.08.20
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(8) -
Notes of Conception - A Local Narrative of Chinese Contemporary Painting
(group)
2008.07.12 - 2008.08.15
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(26) -
Poetic Realism: An Reinterpretation of Jiangnan
(group)
2008.05.08 - 2008.07.27
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
Community of Tastes - The Inaugural Exhibition of Iberia Center for Contemporary Art
(group)
2008.04.15 - 2008.06.09
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(52)
2007 (1)
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The Gift Of Oestruction
(group)
2007.11.10 - 2007.11.30
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Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China) (organiser)
