We do not intend to interrupt the viewer from their imaginations generated from one’s reading of the exhibition title, “Groundwork Community”. Indeed, it maybe read as the accumulation and preparation before one’s creative process, or as the foreground to one’s creative height. In this exhibition, it may also be understood as presenting the most essential aspect related to groundwork, the original forms: the most basic lines, cubes, cylinders and cone; a number of basic colors: black and white, or original colors of the objects; a number of basic materials: metal, wood, and their proper texture and etc. Presenting and observing them collectively, one enters into a community.

Looking back, not only historically, but also re-examine past aesthetic interests and phenomena, is one of the methods and basic attitude by which Taikang Space holds in making exhibitions. Through the observation and presentation of these artists and their artworks, we discovered these varying ideas and the artists’ unique experiences in their fields have demonstrated significant relevance with each other. Or through reviewing, the once overlooked relationships emerge.

Moreover, in order to expand from the visual experience of an exhibition, we inaugurate the first attempt to invite five writers, Chen Mengya, Guo Juan, Lu Yi, Yang Beichen and Zhao Song to submit their writing on their “encounter” at the exhibition site, in hoping to offer unprecedented exhibition viewing experiences. These texts will be edited into the exhibition publication thereafter.

Artists
Hu Xiaoyuan, Sui Jianguo, Wang Sishun, Xin Yunpeng Yang Guangnan, Yang Xinguang, Zhao Zhao

Courtesy of Taikang Space