Beiqiu Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the inaugural exhibition of the\u00a0Art and Geography Series,\u00a0Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses,\u00a0co-curated by architect\u00a0Naitian Yang\u00a0and curator\u00a0Lin Liu. This exhibition will open on September 8, 2023 and run through\u00a0December 10,\u00a02023.<\/p>\n
Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses\u00a0delves into the historical and present context of BMCA\u2019s site \u2013\u00a0Beijige Mountain, and investigates the pivotal role it has played in the evolution of meteorological science in China. Departing from the spectral atmosphere of the museum’s locus, the exhibition brings together about\u00a020\u00a0artists, architects, and researchers from\u00a06\u00a0countries to create a constellation of artworks engaging with this historical lineage and offering different perspectives towards the omnipresent reality of climate crisis.<\/p>\n
Beijige\u00a0serves as a point of convergence for the history and reality of Nanjing and China. It weaves together various elements, including\u00a0ancient myths\/Daoist traditions,\u00a0solar terms\/agricultural activities,\u00a0modernmeteorological science\/intellectual individuals\u00a0in China’s modernization process\u00a0(such as Zhu Kezhen, the founder of the Central Meteorological Observatory in Beijige), as well as\u00a0civil defense projects\/consumer spaces, collectively producing a complex, ambiguous, and romantic environment. The museum’s existing spaces further consolidate this essence, blending together mountain terrain, air raid shelters, and the “white cube” gallery environment. The exhibition seeks to portray this compressed moment through image and sound, and to extract the dynamic imagery of\u00a0wind,\u00a0rain,\u00a0cloud, etc. It evolves from the perception of such phenomenon to the intangible existence of data clouds, and ultimately to the cultural and political\u00a0weather\u00a0and\u00a0climate\u00a0at large.<\/p>\n
Architect Naitian Yang\u2019s choreography of the exhibition space creates an experience that negotiates with the existing concrete structure and resonates with the oscillating cadence of weather itself. In a time when weather and climate issues have transcended theoretical discourse and become an urgent reality, the exhibition endeavors to\u00a0integrate people and weather into the same fluid, precarious, and crucial state. The artworks within the exhibition allude to what might conventionally be termed “bad weather”, yet the binary idea of “good \/ bad” is no longer applicable to our judgments of weather.\u00a0Beyond a human-centered perspective, the synthesis of chaos emerges as the norm of weather, where “good” and\u00a0“bad” coalesce. It pervades every aspect of existence, whether living or not.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":6830,"template":"","tags":[22,67],"exhibitions_type":[8],"class_list":["post-6827","exhibitions","type-exhibitions","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-xuzhen","tag-yangyang","exhibitions_type-museum-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/6827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibitions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6827"},{"taxonomy":"exhibitions_type","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions_type?post=6827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}