Daimler
Contemporary TIERGARTEN | BERLIN |
GERMANY
NOVEMBER
26, 2017-MAY 13, 2018
‘Last
Night’s Fortune Teller’ is the final part of a three-part exhibition series
organized by the Daimler Art Collection to show its new acquisitions of
contemporary Chinese and international art. The newly acquired artworks have
been presented to the public in Berlin and Stuttgart. During the course of the
exhibitions it has become clear that the works by the Chinese artists relate to
a number of key themes in the Daimler Art Collection, including trends in
abstract and conceptual art and new media forms. However, at the same time
these artworks represent an entirely new and distinctive mix within the organic
structure of the collection in both cultural and aesthetic terms. The Daimler
Art Collection’s acquisition policy has focused on artists from centers such as
Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong province, and Hong Kong. The collection’s
forward-looking acquisition strategy, accompanied by in-depth local research,
has enabled it to purchase key works by well-known international artists, but
also pieces by members of the younger generation of artists (born around 1980)
who are not yet widely known in Germany. Overall the works provide insight into
a nation which is the subject of enthralling and controversial debates and
which will play a critical role on the global stage in the 21st century, not
only because of its classical traditions, but also because of its rapid
economic and cultural growth.
Like its
predecessors, the current exhibition ‘Last Night’s Fortune Teller’ presents
different aspects of German, Chinese, and international art. The exhibition has
deliberately distanced itself from an interpretation of the works based only on
the country or cultural group from which they originate, with the aim of
focusing visitors’ attention on the questions inherent in the pieces. The first
part of the exhibition series ‘From a Poem to the Sunset’ (Daimler
Contemporary, Berlin, 2015) focused primarily on installations and video
artworks and presented the conceptual approaches of contemporary Chinese art.
In the second part ‘On Curbstone Jewels and Cobblestones’ (Daimler
Contemporary, Berlin, 2015/16), the overall theme was photographic and
sculptural works. ‘Last Night’s Fortune Teller’ returns to the dialogs and
contrasts between the pieces on show. The focus in this latest exhibition is on
sculptures and installations, together with works at the intersections between
painting, photography, and video art. There is no overall thematic grouping.
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