Uncertain Pleasure: Chinese Artists in the 1990's

Catalogue for a group exhibition of Chinese artists, held at Art Beatus from April 11 - May 17, 1997.

'Chinese contemporary art has played an influential role in the gloabl "uncertainisation" of culture from the very beginning. These artists have always made critical re-understanding and

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deconstructive recycling of traditional culture, as well as an openness to other cultures and art, the starting point of their work... Utilising the notion of "Chinese artist" is certainly a cultural strategy, a strategy of resistance to and transcendence of all established "Weltanschaung" and concepts based on cultural purity - especially national purity. Once again, the "uncertain" has become a powerful challenge, or a pleasure.'

(Abstract from an essay by Hou Hanru, curator)

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