The Cicadas’ language& Zen State: Zou Qionghui’s Solo Exhibition

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Opening time:4pm, May 24, 2014
Duration: 2014.05.25 -- 2014.06.03
Location: 2nd floor exhibition hall of Building No.2, Today Art Museum

Exhibition Preface

From beginning to the end, the Cicadas existed in Zou Qionghui’s art works as a symbol of life, and then established the meaning of her works as a cue. To be one kind of the insects, cicada has its unique pattern of lifecycle: the larva of cicada has to go through a miraculous ecdysis, it will “walks out” of its body, and leaves its outer form alone. The artist was awakened by the continuity and rebirth of its lifecycle, she collected amounts of cicadas to create her installation art works, and the cicadas turned into a visual symbol of her abstract art, implied the human life metaphorically. Every year, people spend the summer at leisure with chirping of cicadas, and the Chinese poets always put the cicadas in their poems: “the forest is more peaceful while cicadas are chirping, the mountain is more secluded while the birds are singing”(by Wang Ji), and “the summer on the past is hasten on by the cicadas, the autumn on the new is bring on by the wild goose” (by Bai Juyi). The art of Zou Qionghui brings the audience to the ancient poetic realm, and furthermore, it brings art into a new cultural construction by new conception, new schema, and new materials. 

Curator

Jia Fangzhou

Artist

Zou Qionghui

Works

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