2016年CRI The Jumble of Growth Exhibition to Unveil in December

 

Around 50 artists from some Latin American and European countries will present their artworks in Beijing at the Today Art Museum in early December. 

These artworks are chosen to emphasize the cultural subjectivity¹ of emerging countries and their independent cultural development. 

Jonathan Harris, head of Birmingham School of Art at Birmingham City University in England, thinks these artworks will also exhibit typicality in social development worldwide.

"In what ways, will these artworks be seen to be evidence of kinds of changes that are taking place in the world or evidence of arguments within the world about how the world is changed? So typicality is just an idea you can trace back through the 20th century in all kinds of critical thinking actually. It's a really important motif² for the way the exhibition will be organized."

In addition to highlighting the independence in different cultures, the exhibition, titled the Jumble³ of Growth, will also present the hybrid⁴ power spurt⁵ in the course of globalization. 

Jonathan Harris, however, expresses his interest in seeing how these artists will explore the idea of global art. 

"Despite now twenty years of thinking around the idea of global contemporary art, the arguments about whether there's such a thing is global art, and what that might mean have not been settled yet. So I'm looking forward to see how the curators with the artists that they have chosen will explore this idea that there are some categories of new objects or new way of thinking, which is intrinsically global in some sense."

Meanwhile, some Chinese artists, including Ni Haifeng, Lu Yang and Wang Guofeng will also join the exhibition, reflecting on the relationship between Chinese contemporary art and international artistic⁶ trends. 

The Jumble of Growth exhibition will open on December 10th and will run for three months.

1 subjectivity   

n.主观性（主观主义）

参考例句：

• In studying a problem,we must shun subjectivity.研究问题，忌带主观性。
• 'Cause there's a certain amount of subjectivity involved in recreating a face.因为在重建面部的过程中融入了太多的主观因素？

2 motif   

n.(图案的)基本花纹，(衣服的)花边；主题

参考例句：

• Alienation is a central motif in her novels.疏离感是她小说的一个重要的主题。
• The jacket has a rose motif on the collar.这件夹克衫领子上有一朵玫瑰花的图案。

3 jumble   

vt.使混乱，混杂；n.混乱；杂乱的一堆

参考例句：

• Even the furniture remained the same jumble that it had always been.甚至家具还是象过去一样杂乱无章。
• The things in the drawer were all in a jumble.抽屉里的东西很杂乱。

4 hybrid   

n.(动，植）杂种，混合物

参考例句：

• That is a hybrid perpetual rose.那是一株杂交的四季开花的蔷薇。
• The hybrid was tall,handsome,and intelligent.那混血儿高大、英俊、又聪明。

5 spurt   

v.喷出；突然进发；突然兴隆

参考例句：

• He put in a spurt at the beginning of the eighth lap.他进入第八圈时便开始冲刺。
• After a silence, Molly let her anger spurt out.沉默了一会儿，莫莉的怒气便迸发了出来。

6 artistic   

adj.艺术(家)的，美术(家)的；善于艺术创作的

参考例句：

• The picture on this screen is a good artistic work.这屏风上的画是件很好的艺术品。
• These artistic handicrafts are very popular with foreign friends.外国朋友很喜欢这些美术工艺品。