the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990and
Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents in co-operation with
Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai on September 11, 4pm. Speakers include: Doryun Chong, Jane DeBevoise, Wu Shanzhuan (Artist), Shi Yong (Artist), Wu Hung and Yu Youhan (Artist)
Asia Art Archive (AAA) and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) celebrate
the completion of two documentary projects that are essential to a
deeper understanding of the history of contemporary Chinese art: AAA's
Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from
1980-1990 and MoMA's publication of Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary
Documents. The two organizations will co-launch both projects in major
cities in China and in New York in the fall of 2010 with a series of
public programs. These milestone projects focus on the dramatic
development and growth of Chinese contemporary art over the last three
decades by documenting, collecting and translating critical
discussions, primary materials and key texts.
Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990
The 1980s was a seminal period in China's recent art history. During
this time, many of China's most celebrated artists attended art
academies, held their first exhibitions, and developed the
intellectual foundation for the art practices that have contributed to
their present success. In order to foster research into this
transformative moment in Chinese history, AAA has undertaken a four
year focused archiving project; collecting, indexing and preserving
rare documentary and primary source materials. As a result, AAA has
collected hundreds of texts published during the 1980s, completed 75
video-taped interviews, produced a documentary film, and digitized the
personal archives of renowned artists and curators, including Fei
Dawei, Zhang Xiaog ang, Zheng Shengtian, Lu Peng, Mao Xuhui and Wu
Shanzhuan, to name a few. With a total of over 70,000 digital
documents, AAA now maintains the world's largest and most
systematically organized archive of documentary material on the
period. This scholarly resource will be freely accessible and open to
the public from AAA's physical premises as well as through a dedicated
web portalwww.china1980s.org starting September 2010.
Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents
Despite the liveliness and creativity of avant-garde Chinese art in
the post-Mao era and its prominence in the world of international
contemporary art, a systematic introduction to this important work in
any Western language is still lacking. Contemporary Chinese Art:
Primary Documentsremedies this situation by bringing together
carefully selected primary texts in English translation. The documents
included range from the manifestos of avant-garde groups, prefaces to
important exhibitions, writings by representative artists, important
critical, and analytical essays andothers. Arranged in chronological
order, the texts guide readers through the development of avant-garde
Chinese art from 1976 until 2006. Edited by Wu Hung, Director of the
Center for the Art of East Asia and Consulting Curator at the Smart
Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, with the assistance of
Peggy Wang, Assistant Professor at Denison University, Contemporary
Chinese Art: Primary Documents is published by The Museum of Modern
Art and will be available at MoMA Stores and online at
www.MoMAStore.org in September 2010. It is distributed to the trade by
Duke University Press, www.dukeupress.edu.
Schedule of Public Program
The co-launch will be accompanied by a series of discussion forums
with artists, curators and scholars:
Hong Kong, 7th September, 6.30 – 8.30pm, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Speakers include: Chen Tong (Artist), Doryun Chong (Associate Curator
of Painting & Sculpture at MoMA), Jane DeBevoise (Chair of Board of
Directors of AAA), Wang Aihe (Associate Professor, School of Chinese,
The University of Hong Kong), Wu Hung (Director of the Center for the
Art of East Asia, and Consulting Curator at the Smart Museum of Art at
the University of Chicago) and Xu Tan (Artist)
Beijing, 9th September, 6.30 – 8.30pm, The Central Academy of Fine Arts
Speakers include: Doryun Chong, Jane DeBevoise, Song Dong (Artist),
Huang Rui (Artist), Wu Hung and Xu Bing (Artist)
Shanghai, 11th September, 4 – 6pm, Minsheng Art Museum in cooperation
with Arthub Asia
Speakers include: Doryun Chong, Jane DeBevoise, Wu Shanzhuan (Artist),
Shi Yong (Artist), Wu Hung and Yu Youhan (Artist)
New York, 15th October, 6:30pm, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Speakers include: Huang Rui (Artist), Jane DeBevoise, Lin Tianmiao
(Artist), Sarah Suzuki (Assistant Curator of Prints & Illustrated
Books at MoMA), and Wu Hung, among other leading artists and critics
of Contemporary Chinese art. The event will be followed by a
reception, where the book will be available for purchase.
Organizers of co-launch: ArtHub Asia in co-operation with Minsheng Art
Museum (Shanghai), Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong), The Central Academy
of Fine Arts (Beijing), and The Museum of Modern Art (New York)
Organizers:
Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong)
Asia Art Archive is a young and dynamic organisation initiated in 2000
as a direct response to the increasing number of Asian contemporary
art exhibitions and events world wide. Based in Hong Kong, AAA, a
non-profit organisation and registered charity, is dedicated to
documenting the recent history of visual art from the region within an
international context.
The first art education centre and library of its kind, AAA boasts one
of the most comprehensive collections of primary and secondary source
material on contemporary Asian art in the world, with over 26,000
titles accessible to the public, free of charge, via its physical
space andsearchable from its website. From its inception, AAA has
acknowledged its position in the field as more than a static
collection of material waiting to be discovered. Through the regular
initiation of educational and public programs, AAA endeavours to be
pro-active in instigating dialogue and critical thinking, and in
introducing as wide an audience as possible to this rich resource. 11F
Hollywood Centre, 233 Hollywood Road, Hong Kong.www.aaa.org.hk
MoMA (New York)
Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, The Museum of Modern
Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the
world. Central to The Museum of Modern Art's mission is the
encouragement of an ever-deeper understanding and enjoyment of modern
and contemporary art by the diverse local, national, and international
audiences that it serves. www.moma.org
MoMA's International Program, established in 1952, builds and
maintains relationships between the Museum and a diverse network of
modern and contemporary art communities across the globe. Through a
series of international programs and publications, the department
fosters learning, critical discourse, and exchange on international
models of museological, curatorial, and artistic best practices.
The Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing)
The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) is a leading institution for
modern art education in China, and has nurtured many pre-eminent
artists in the past ninety years. In the 1980s, CAFA was the breeding
ground for the first generation of contemporary art critics and
curators who contributed to the development of New Wave art in the
1980s that culimated in the organization of the legendary 1989
China/Avant-garde exhibition.www.cafa.edu.cn/
ArtHub Asia in co-operation with Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai)
Founded in 2007, ArtHub Asia (link to www.arthubasia.org) is a
multi-disciplinary organization devoted to contemporary art creation
in China and rest of Asia. In collaboration with museums and other
public / private spaces and institutions, it initiates and delivers
ambitious art projects through a sustained dialogue with visual,
performance, and new media artists. Directors: Davide Quadrio, Defne
Ayas, Qiu Zhijie. ArtHub Asia is a Network Partner of the Prince Claus
Fund 2008-2010.
ArtHub Asia is working with Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai) to organize
this event. Minsheng Art Museum is a non-profit arts organization
established by the China Minsheng Bank in 2008.
Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from
1980-1990 is made possible by the generous support of The Robert H.N.
Ho Family Foundation, The W.L.S. Spencer Foundation, Ilyas and Mara
Khan, and Foundation for Arts Initiatives
Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents is made possible by lead
sponsor The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation. Generous support is
provided by The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art.
Additional funding is provided by Budi Tek, Byron A. Meyer, E. Rhodes
& Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G.
Farley, Blakemore Foundation, Guy and Myriam Ullens, LLWW Foundation,
OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangning Art Museum (OCAT), Anne
H. Bass, Jo Carole Lauder, Larry Warsh and AW Asia, Robert Rosenkranz
Foundation, Vicki and Roger Sant, Agnes Gund, Robert E. Meyerhoff, The
Fran and Ray Stark Foundation, H.R.H. Duke Franz of Bavaria, Jack
Shear, Thierry Barbier-Mueller, Mr. Marc Besen AO and Mrs. Eva Besen
AO, Lyn and Jerry Grinstein in honor of Jay Levenson, Sophia Sheng,
Eleanor Ford Sullivan, Migs Wright, Constance Caplan, Uli Sigg, and
Lenore a nd Bernard Greenberg.
The co-launch events are made possible with the generous support of
The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, The Robert H.
N. Ho Family Foundation, and additional support from Hong Kong Arts
Centre and JIA Boutique Hotels.
For more information about Materials of the Future: Documenting
Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990, please Phoebe Wong
atphoebe@aaa.org.hk
For Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents, please contact
Hannah_Kim@moma.org
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