The Rockbund Art Museum of Shanghai is proud to present From Gesture to Language, a group exhibition celebrates the creative and privileged links that unite the visual arts and the practive of writing in China and in Asia.

The exhibition accords a special interest to “anachronism”, which is to say the manner in which classical, modern, and contemporary works can match with each other — often in unexpected ways — thereby enriching their interpretation and broadening their historical perspectives.

From Gesture to Language intends to confront conceptual creation against the yardstick of another approach that has profoundly questioned creation in the plastic arts within the 20th century: Minimalism and Arte Povera. An approach whose final end also was to reduce the work of art to the structure that underlies it. Neither letter nor word, but the ordering of pure form like new primordial elements of a universe in gestation; in this way one must understand the presence of François Morellet’s red Lamentation.

Comtemporary Artists:
Georg Baselitz, Louise Bourgeois, Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Raphael Denis, Philippe Favier, Franz Gertsch, Jenny Holzer, Andre Kneib, Liu Dan, Francois Morellet, Robert Morris, Zoran Music, Bruce Numan, Giuseppe Penone, Arnulf Rainer, CeReims, Martin Salazar, Kiki Smith, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Danh Vo, Terry Winters, Xu Bing, Yan Pei Ming, Yang Jiechang, Zhao Xuebing

*image(left)
Lamentable
Ø 6 m.50
Rouge/2006/8 tubes de 1/8 d
© François Morellet

Courtesy of Rockbund Art Museum