Yuan Art Museum is pleased to present the group exhibition entitled \u201cA Blue-Flowering Day\u201d curated by Evonne Jiawei Yuan.<\/p>\n
South Korean-born, German philosopher Byung-Chul Han, in his book Praise to the Earth: A Trip to the Garden, describes his philosophical exploration while tending to the genre of \u201cblue blossom\u201d in his gardening work, and elaborates upon its romanticized essence through color theory. As a symbol of eternal aspiration that calls to one\u2019s passion and vocation, \u201cblaue blume\u201d not only embodies the metaphysical longing for the infinite, but also alludes to the lure and desire, or even nothingness \u2013 especially concerning its rare appearance. To this day, the blue flower remains an enduring motif in Western art. American poet Maggie Nelson made a similar presentation in her lyrical essay Bluets. The special part about blue is that it is solitary yet exalted, projecting a field oscillating between nostalgia for a distant memory and compassion for futurity. <\/p>\n
Building on such imagery, \u201cA Blue-Flowering Day\u201d examines works by local and international artists of various generations, which brings forth some simple yet profound concepts of the elusive emotion aroused by the blue flower, or the visual threshold of the particular colour and the speculative ecologies around it.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":8520,"template":"","tags":[22,31,71],"exhibitions_type":[8],"class_list":["post-8518","exhibitions","type-exhibitions","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-xuzhen","tag-wangjianwei","tag-suyuxin","exhibitions_type-museum-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/8518","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\/8520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8518"},{"taxonomy":"exhibitions_type","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions_type?post=8518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}