This exhibition is named after "eyes", because the visual art is the world's common language. Painting, sculpture, drama, folk art, architectural design, film and television, music and other art forms are all first seen by our "eyes", resulting in positive and active appreciation, consumption and criticism activities. German rationalist philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714 - 1762, "the father of aesthetics") for the first time gives an official category to the concept of aesthetics. He believes that aesthetics is the subject of feelings and emotional law. With the art as the object of study, it is extremely important to have the eyes of aesthetic experience. Therefore the Soviet revolutionary film director Dziga Vertov wrote in 1923: "I am free from the constraints of time and space. I coordinate all the points in the whole universe and I am the ruler. So I have created a new idea of knowing the world, and I will explain the world that you cannot understand in a brand-new way."
△ Vent No.2 —— Deng Shiqing
Objectively speaking, visual aesthetics does not involve communicative obstacles caused by gender, age, language, educational background, social role, religious beliefs and other differences. Aesthetic view of postures, facial expressions, and customs, taking portraits as an example, is portrayed by the artist's skill, presenting a psychological or social relationship. Of course, we never just look at one thing. Our eyes are always moving, and our thinking is always busy, always putting things around the chain of things around it and reviewing the relationship between things and ourselves. At the same time, others are watching us, and the sight of others is combined with us so that we are convinced that we are in this objective world.
△ Slience —— Zhang Xiaodan
In the world we need to find a common language, and through the exhibition we have to conduct an interactive relationship’s attempt, from which we can find a common discourse. The exhibition is divided into regular exhibition, invitation exhibition and public welfare exhibition. The first unit of regular exhibition is designed to provide a cohesive approach for viewers who intend to appreciate contemporary art without systematic knowledge and experience; the second unit of invitation exhibition serves as a reference for the standard sample - like the remark made by great French novelist Balzac when he saw the painting of Francis Hals – “it enriched our understanding of the contemporary and raised our fear of the ever-increasing momentum that was enough to make us see more clearly the vitality of life.”
△ Rebirth —— Anthony
The third unit of the public welfare exhibition focus on diversity, including those global common topics of art and the city, art and ecology, art and heritage as well as art and the next generation. We expect this world-wide exhibition can make sense for mission and responsibility, continually raise and focus on new voices and find new art texts, paradigms and grammars, in order to complement and enrich the content of the contemporary art history we are practicing.
Conclusion:
There are a variety of styles, skills, selections, themes, forms, purposes. Combing through thousands of works, we found the common and different features showing in the development of contemporary art in the young people. It can combine the current historical environment with the social stage to implement a new stage of development and exploration. At present, many exhibitions take place over the same period, and we hope that the exhibition will be used to retrieve the real meaning of the exhibition to the artist, the art research, the public aesthetics, and the cultural ecology. The theoretical approach we have taken is to return the confusion and the question to the most basic nature, and then we can conduct further studies. Our ideal is the combination of reality and ideal and the integration of ancient culture and modern culture, which requires a great effort.
Finally, We hope to see that the people who love life use painting to express themselves from now on, and that outstanding artists find their way to the world from here.
—— Zhu Qing
