Be Afraid Of China!!!

 

Western world tremble! Be afraid of China! China is not only a huge country, with a great working population, increasing economic power and the biggest diaspora all over the world but it is also becoming a nest for the most gifted contemporary artists.

 

The exhibition “The Revolution Continues: New Chinese Art.” Is being held at Saatchi Gallery in London. More than 50 pieces of 28 Chinese Artist are being shown, it ‘s not just impressive the production and the talent that China has given to the world but the master of the technique, the quantity of production and quality of their work.

The Chinese artists manage perfectly well the occidental and the oriental matters; they represent on their work several social, historical and cultural issues. What makes extremely attiring this exhibition is to know the sarcastic, direct, rude, impolite and sometimes aggressive gaze of orient towards the western world. 

 

They expose different topics on their work; a refusal of to the mass media factory on the work of Feng Zhengjie, they challenge  the collective memory with pieces like Wedding from Li Qing. As well the society, its current rules and history proposing a different one with Shi Xinning work and the way community relationships are imposed in Communication by Cang Xi. Their work has clearly rapports to how politics are held in both orient and occident, religion and the supposed superiority of western world in culture, economy and society, nevertheless they make a huge critique to the cultural, social and religious values of the western world and the supposed sexual freedom in occident.

 

They create a revolution with the ordinary; an interstice for human relations and the possibility of a interchange in human matters that has being denied for centuries between this two cultures; they create a space for the dialogue, other than the one in the current system that is mainly managed by economic issues and the polarity of their ideologies.

The well-educated western audience is shocked and challenged by every room thanks to the excellent work done by the curator and the conditions of the gallery. The provocative nature of the Chinese contemporary art, creates a short circuit on the European audience that is obliged to stare, look away or just take a quick glance. Even if the pieces are numerous, the exhibition is not tiring, the tension is kept and the excitement in the audience is held.

 

This exhibition cannot be missed is overwhelming, exiting and shocking, it over passed any expectations I could have had.