A long march from the 20th to the 21st century. An instant prompt to the rise Mao Zedong? Now it is the rise of Lu Jie (the brain of this project) nonetheless.
Personally I think the presentation on the Long March Project is by far the most impressive at the Asia Cultural Co-operation Forum 2006.
Just the aspiration, faith and perseverance are rarely paralleled by many other contemporary art projects, reminding me somehow of Christo & Jeanne-Claude.
Who can say it won't catch up with the Venice Biennale one day? Or else, it has already outstripped the Italian paradigm on the conceptual level ?!
In Western culture there is pilgrimage while in our Chinese history we have the Long March. In life as in art, rather metaphorically, it's always like a bold or unequivocal journey to the eternal land.
Personally I think the presentation on the Long March Project is by far the most impressive at the Asia Cultural Co-operation Forum 2006.
Just the aspiration, faith and perseverance are rarely paralleled by many other contemporary art projects, reminding me somehow of Christo & Jeanne-Claude.
Who can say it won't catch up with the Venice Biennale one day? Or else, it has already outstripped the Italian paradigm on the conceptual level ?!
In Western culture there is pilgrimage while in our Chinese history we have the Long March. In life as in art, rather metaphorically, it's always like a bold or unequivocal journey to the eternal land.
2 comments:
Yes...The Long March project was very fascinating and inspiring.
I hope more people will join in the spirit and become more involved in this kind of projects to broaden the horizon in HK art scene and beyond just like what he did in China.
Yeah we really need art people (be they artists or art administrators)with foresight and vision.
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