Last year, as one of the sponsors, L-Art Gallery participated in the exhibition "Pure Views: The Transition of Chinese Contemporary Art" curated by Chinese art history expert Mr.Lv Peng in Arts Santa Monica. This exhibition occupied the whole space on the third floor of the museum. Videos, installations, sculptures and paintings presented "brand new"Chinese contemporary art to the European audience.
The"Pure Views" exhibition is the second comprehensive presentation of Chinese contemporary art following the first Chinese contemporary art group exhibition held in Arts Santa Monica in 1995."Pure Views" is not only the continuation of the academic research of the curator, but also an opportunity for the Spanish audience and media to re-comprehend the development and changes of Chinese contemporary art.
With time passing by, we can see that the Western society's recognization and understanding of Chinese contemporary art still remains“in the past tense”, however meanwhile, against a background of globalization, the look of Chinese contemporary art is being transmitted through different channels to the Western world. Thanks to Josep Soler i Casanellas, a friend who loves Chinese contemporary art passionately and promotes it strenuously, that we could establish connection with Dolors Junyent Gallery and start a conversation. Delightedly, an art space like D J Gallery, which has been promoting Western artworks since the 1970s, is still maintaining a developing, open and Longview and discussing art, especially Chinese art with us. We hope that the Western society can better understand our culture and society through Chinese art of these days. We believe that D J Gallery also hopes to open a new window for the art lovers and collectors by initiating the promotion of Chinese art creations in Barcelona.
Therefore, today, with the mutual effort and cooperation of Josep, D J Gallery and us, this small but delicate "New Vision: Chinese Contemporary Art Group Exhibition" is born. The participating artists, of course, do not represent the entirety of Chinese contemporary art, but they are surely the status of Chinese artists creating works against a new era background in microcosm. The Westen audience will discover: the current Chinese contemporary art is no longer the "Chinese contemporary art" known by the Western society before. This is not because our history has been negated or ignored,but because with the understanding of history, the new generation of Chinese artists, who live in a completely different social context compared to the last generation, are continuing to discuss the possibility of art,as well as interpreting their existence and thoughts and the continuation and changes of culture and society in an individual way. We hope that this exhibition is just a prelude, after all, discussion and imagination centering on art and culture is an eternal melody.