Title

Floating Time: Chinese Prints 1954-2002.

Venues

University Art Gallery, The University of Sydney (1 August 2016 – 25 November 2016)

Date

(2016)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (NSW). Prints

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

'Floating Time: Chinese Prints 1954–2002 brings together, for the first time, the University of Sydney Art Collection’s 93 modern and contemporary Chinese prints. One of only three major collections of twentieth-century Chinese prints in Australia, this substantial collection includes national-prize winning prints and works by internationally acclaimed artists, including Zhao Zongzao and Su Xinping. The half-century represented here reveals not only the development of the powerful woodcut tradition under Mao, but also the rapid expansion of printmaking as artists embraced a broader set of themes and more experimental techniques. Such developments reflect the tumultuous periods in which these works were produced and offer a unique and intimate glimpse into the lives of these fifty artists -- a vastly different perspective from the familiar forms of contemporary Chinese art seen in better-known international art circuits.'

[ from back cover of catalogue, 2016]

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