- Second part of international artistic exchange is curated by Xiaoai Wang, the first Chinese student to graduate from The Glasgow School of Art
- Over 100 works of art by 34 artists being shown in four cities
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34 leading artists, who are also members of staff in the School of Fine at the GSA, will be showing work in four cities across China over the next five months. The exhibitions are part of an academic exchange which began with East and West Walk Forward (a Luxun Academy of Fine Arts Teachers’ exhibition) shown in Glasgow in autumn 2017.
Three years in the planning this second part of the creative collaboration will see over 100 artworks shown in Shenyang (Luxun Academy of Fine Arts until 7 November 2020), Beijing (The Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University – 20 November – 4 December 2020), Guangzhou (Academy of Fine Arts 29 December 2020 – 28 January 2021 and Chonqing (Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts: 1 – 14 March 2021).
“This exhibition represents a deepening of understanding on the larger scale, between Scotland and China,” says curator, Xiaoai Wang. “It is a signpost of the continuing development and maturing of the intercultural space, which, increasingly, we share. It is the space into which our students graduate, and assume responsibility for giving voice to our aspirations from both our individual perspective, and our common one, as citizens of the world. As such, it represents a shared space, created through transnational and transcultural communication, in which dialogue and cultural exchange are possible beyond the barriers of language.”
“For me personally, speaking as the first Chinese graduate of GSA, I know at first-hand the value and importance for students of this kind of cultural exchange: to close the distance between ourselves and people on the other side of the world, to speak through the language of art, and share our creative wealth.”
“The wonderful relationship that the School of Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art has with Luxun Academic of Fine Arts in China has truly enriched and enhanced both our students experience and staff perspectives upon different global approaches to Fine Art practices,” says GSA Head of the School of Fine Art, Dr Alistair Payne. “We look forward to ensuring that we can develop these connections further in the future.”
The work on show ranges across the full spectrum of artistic practice.
The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of the former head of Painting and Printmaking at the GSA, Karen Roulstone
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