ShanghART Gallery

796 Huai Hai Lu

Opening: June 28,2009 Sunday, 3-5pm

Date: June 29-July 30

Featuring artists: Sun Xun, Li Shan, Tang Maohong, Xu Zhen, Liang Shaoji.

                                  Edgar Allan Poe

ShanghART is pleased to announce the exhibition METAMORPHOSIS that splits the line between the rational and the magical.

While each work on display has its own distinct tone, thematic and look, the art presented add up to a coherent and complex opus. There is no repetition but, rather, a suggestive relationship. Taking the writing of Poe as its point of departure, the show combines naturalistic imagery and metaphorical content to create beautiful, yet unsettling works.

Generating tension between judgments of aesthetic and conscience, these surrealistic tableauxs function as mirrors of the psyche, which prompt self-examination. The exhibition calls forth nature’s inherent regenerative powers to temper uncertainties of the subconscious mind. The artists create both magnificent and downplayed vistas as sites for the enactment of life, death and regeneration. In their inventive allegories, people and animals negotiate a tenuous balance between knowledge and irrationality. They reconcile the disturbing eventualities of his actions by grounding them in organic elements which assert nature’s boundless forces of reclamation and rebirth. 

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