Young Chinese Artists: DAYBREAK

Arario Gallery Beijing & Cheonan Spaces are honored to present the major Chinese young artists group exhibition of this year, ‘DAYBREAK’.

The exhibition will fill the entire 1730 square meters of Arario Beijing and Arario Cheonan Space with approximately 72 works by 13 young Chinese artists born in the middle of 1970 or 1980’. It will span mediums and encompass painting, drawing, photography, film, animation, performance and installation. It will be showing at Beijing space from September 10 through November 20, 2011 and at Cheonan space, Korea from September 8 – October 30.

The word “Daybreak” means the first light in the morning of one day and it indicates breaking through the darkness to get reborn and the symptoms of the vanish of decay. Inspired by the fact that some of the most influential and enduring gestures in art and history have been made by young people in the early stages of their lives. The participating artists of the show are also on the historical passage. Based on the history of predecessors who imprinted Chinese contemporary art in international art scene, they are questioning about social issue or the symptom of human society around them and creating their own history. Instead of radically breaking from the past, the artists draw from a myriad of influences across historical movements and the current events happened in Contemporary China to highlight the intergenerational dynamics that drive contemporary art. This age artist group has yet to be described in any way beyond a number of concepts to define them such as individualism, consumerism, urbanization and so on but they are exploring the visual culture of Chinese contemporary art.

We hope that ‘DAYBREAK’ will offer a look at our world as reflected through the 72 works of the 13 artists belonging to the same time of contemporary China and yet representing entirely different perspectives on their problems and beauties. We hope that this exhibition addresses the Chinese art history of the present and maps out their artistic journey for the future of Chinese contemporary art.