According to Robert C. Stowe, an internationally renowned curator, “Art is a solution to the conflict in multiculturalism and all aspects of society.” Likewise, art is the most critical way to recover one’s senses and return to instincts.
In the journey of exploring the senses, the artists are both travelers and poets. With different materials, forms, and expressive languages, they come up with personal artworks to convey their ideas, concepts, and moods, use metaphors for the problems in contemporary society, inspiring people to contemplate and reflect.
Works inspired by thinking with the senses are in a pure, advanced artistic language. As creators, artists expect us to stop and return to the most basic sensory experience, to the truly instinctive, primitive feeling, touch, and experience.
Under the theme of “Thinking with the Senses”, the grand opening exhibition of Dacheng Art Museum has invited 24 pioneering, experimental and forward-looking contemporary artists including Du Songru, Feng Haitao, Guo Hui, Li Jin, Liu Jia, Lu Fusheng, Lu Chuntao, Peng Jian, Peng Wei, Qiu Deshu, Ren Zhe, Shen Liang, Shen Qin, Tong Kunniao, Wang Dongling, Wang Guangle, Wang Jinsong, Wang Tiande, Wei Qingji, Wu Jian’an, Xu Hualing, Xu Lei, Zhang Yanzi, Zhu Zhengming among others to present pertinent contemporary views, implicit oriental abstraction, and a vibrant mortal world…With the most personalized artworks, the artists intend to express their emotions and perceptions inspired by the senses.
Their works, either figurative or abstract, explore the recognition of human senses in the contemporary context in technological time and space, provoking thoughts on spirit and body, self and world, past and future.
It is an unconventional way of artistic narrative, the contemplation of the senses, and the most primitive and instinctive artistic expression. The works are also the artists’ self and psychological portraits.
With an art exhibition that breaks the “norms”, the museum presents a diverse and ultimate art experience with original and exploratory contemporary artworks as well as diverse and open cultural activities. It mobilizes the multiple senses of the audience by immersing them in a world of art and helping them to find spiritual homes.
The exhibition “Thinking with the Senses” continues to empower the creativity of Chinese contemporary art, seeking to present a multifaceted and comprehensive landscape of contemporary art through painting, sculpture, video, installation, and other forms of art. The exhibition incorporates art, culture, and multi-sensory experience, to fully mobilize the senses of sight, touch, and hearing. With new sensory stimulation, the audience will experience a world with colorful abundance and richness.
Duration: April 30 - June 15, 2023
Venue: Dacheng Art Museum, Tianning Jingyuan, 268 Yanling Middle Road, Tianning District, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
Located in the beautiful Dragon City - Changzhou, the poetic south of the Yangtze River, the Dacheng Art Museum is a public learning and communication space that integrates art exhibitions, public education activities, aesthetic experience, and cultural consumption.
Based on a global perspective, contemporary context, and regional culture, the Art Museum upholds the concept of “promoting the essence of traditional art and advancing the development of contemporary art”. It functions as a new cultural and art institution that focuses on contemporary art exhibitions and collections, as well as art research and public education services.
The Dacheng Art Museum is refurbished from the “Jing Yuan” of Dacheng Factory No.2, which was built by the famous patriotic industrialist Liu Guojun during the Republican period, giving new life to this important site of industrial culture and human history.
With original and pioneering contemporary artworks, the Art Museum activates the profound regional culture and explores the past, present, and future of the Eastern tradition and Jiangnan aesthetics. Through uniquely charming contemporary art exhibitions and diversified open cultural activities, the Art Museum has become an innovative driving force to inject artistic vitality into the ancient Dragon City and promote the development of cultural and creative industries.
