The target of China's GDP growth for 2012 has been lowered from 8% to 7.5%, while our Preminister's facing tremendous headwinds towards this uncertain economy situation, a group of artists as well as art practitioners joined to call on public attention on Art's future of China.

How exactly does this art exhibition draw public's attention in name of a economy term(7.5%)? What’s the internal relations between a country's economy and its art?

Since post industrial era, art has been taken as means of culture expression, which was inevitably crushed the "economy and technology oriented" social value, alternatively, a clash between sensibility and rationality. Arts, as always beyond daily necessities, is usually created to express critical reflection on the current social system. Supposed fine arts has always been existed with it's greatest value, it is an ability to build a thinking wonderland of freedom, and create a possibility of living in a metaphysically flourishing life for their viewers.

The economic prosperity of a society however has everything to do with consumption, and "waste" thus is always generated at the same time, which has been recognized as "acceptable" under the  commercial circumstances. Except those daily necessities, any additional "buying" is just way of producing waste. As the theme "7.5 percent", the number of economic growth does not merely indicate nowadays circulatory production and running of consumption system, moreover, it insinuates a foaming flourishing phenomenon and people's greedy want for waste. In art industry, this flourishing fantasy and passion for "waste" were randomly sparked and had been rampantly sprawling. But where's our fine arts living and heading? Though art has participated into this system for hundreds of years which is doing great favor for our economic growth, it can not simply pull itself out while the "crisis" came.

In 7.5 percent, 10 China's top artists are going to show you their concerns and interests on issues of art‘s survival, art characteristics, and thier expectation for Art's revitalization in a "shrinking" China.

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Artist:

Chen Shaoxiong, Dong Wensheng, Li Chao, Li Hongbo, Ni Haifeng, Su Shangzhou, Wang Yin, Yang Maoyuan, Yang Xinguang, Zhang Zhaogong