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The First Guangzhou Triennial: Products

Introducing Professor Wu Hung, Chief Curator of The First Guangzhou Triennial and the Curatorial Committee
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The First Guangzhou Triennial products are available in the Guangdong Museum of Art Store.

The Guangdong Museum of Art Store offers a unique collection of gifts that draw their inspiration from the arts. Our store contains a wide range of decorative accessories for the home and the individual, as well as one of the most extensive collections of art reference books produced by the Guangdong Museum of Art. Entry to the store is free of charge and we welcome you to visit when you are in the area.

To Order
All items are available at the Guangdong Museum of Art Store.

Order today by fax at (020) 87351326. By mail, send order to

Guangdong Museum of Art Store
38 Yanyu Road, Er-sha Island
Guangzhou, 510105, PRC

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Tours of the Exhibition
Docents engage visitors in thought-provoking explorations of the First Guangzhou Triennial Tuesday-Sunday during daily-guided tours of the exhibition. Gallery attendants are also available to talk informally with visitors and respond to questions about the exhibition during most open hours.

Tuesday

Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000)

Guangdong Museum of Art

November 18, 2002 – January 19, 2003

An exhibition organized by the Guangdong Museum of Art

Chief Curator: Wu Hung

Curatorial Committee:

Wang Huangsheng, Wu Hung

Huang Zhuan, Feng Boyi

Place and Model

A symposium organized in conjunction with the Triennial

Organized by the Guangdong Museum of Art and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council

November 16 - 17, 2002 at the Hong Kong Art Museum

November 19 - 20, 2002 at the Guangdong Museum of Art

Prof. Douglas CRIMP
Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies
University of Rochester
c/o 139 Fulton Street, #912
New York, NY 10038 USA

October 9, 2002, Guangzhou

Dear Prof. Douglas CRIMP,

The ten years from 1990 to 2000 represented a crucial stage in the development of Chinese experimental art. Thoroughly internationalized, this art also responded to tremendous changes in Chinese society. Many artists devoted themselves to experimenting with new art media and forms, exploring new territories in artistic expression and representation. Their work attracted worldwide attention among art critics and curators, and played an increasingly important role in shaping domestic visual culture in Mainland China.

Since it was opened to the public in 1997, the Guangdong Museum of Art in Guangzhou (Canton), China, has been promoting the research and presentation of modern and contemporary Chinese art. Hence, it has initiated the Guangzhou Triennial, beginning with the current exhibition entitled Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000).

As the first comprehensive survey of Chinese experimental art of the 1990s, The First Guangzhou Triennial features the most significant works created in these ten years. The title, Reinterpretation, highlights the organizer's intention to provide a systematic introduction to and explanation of these works in their artistic, cultural, social, and political context. The main part of the exhibition includes three thematic sections – “Memory and Reality”, “Self and Environment”, and “Global and Local”. An additional section, titled "Experimentation Continues," features works by fifteen invited artists whose work indicates new directions in contemporary Chinese art after year 2000.

In conjunction with this exhibition, the Guangdong Museum of Art and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council will organize an international symposium on contemporary art exhibitions and curatorial practices. This symposium will bring together museum directors, curators, and critics in and out of China to discuss some major issues: How to develop local characteristics and multi-culturalism in contemporary art exhibitions when the process of globalization continues to deepen and intensify? How to employ and renew “universal” models of art exhibitions according to local situations and needs? How to deal with the conflict between experimentation and public acceptance in art exhibitions? What are the major challenges that museum directors and curators face at this moment in history?

We would like to extend our warmest invitation to you to participate in the opening and the symposium in Hong Kong and Guangzhou. Please inform us of whether or not you may come at your earliest convenience. We will then send you a detailed schedule. Very soon, you will also be able to find updated information in English on our web site: http://www.gdmoa.org.

For any further questions, please feel free to get in touch with Mr. Wang Jia and Ms. Guo Xiaoyan in the Guangzhou Triennial Office at Telephone: +86 (20) 8735-1261; Fax: 8735.1326 or via E-mail: gdmsg@vip.sina.com. I, together with our team, look forward to welcoming you here in Guangzhou, China!

Best regards,

Sincerely,

Hung Wu
Chief Curator
The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art

Wang Huangsheng
Director
Guangdong Museum of Art