Climate | 衍景

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The Research House for Asian Art (RHAA) is proud to present Climate: Contemporary Landscape in Flux from Monday, February 18th, 2021 through Monday, May 31st, 2021. 

Landscapes are the universally favored form of capturing the world around us. The epic frescoes of Ancient Rome, the mist shrouded mountains of the Song Dynasty, the Oxbow: these historically significant landscapes share a common fascination with the serene and the majestic -- a classic tension that romanticizes the natural world through philosophy imparted by its appreciation. The historic popularity of landscape paintings led to the categorization of landscape as a genre versus that of conceptual direction - consequently many of the works we associate with the term landscape are traditional paintings. 

This exhibition explores the possibilities of landscape from a conceptual perspective beyond the romance of natural manifestation. We proudly present artists Chenlin Cai, Gloria Fan Duan, Percy Lam, Sujin Moon, Haomin Peng, Meejung Soh, and Ilkwon Yoon, whose works exemplify a fluid consideration of landscape as informed by political, social, and cultural conditions. 

Join us in February for a panel talk in conjunction with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago!

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我们通过对身边风景的捕获形成对周遭世界的感知。 从古罗马的史诗壁画，到宋代的山水画，再到托马斯·科尔的牛轭湖，这些富有历史意义的风景画与本身宁静而雄伟的自然景象有着共通的魅力。艺术家在画作中融入的个人思考给自然增添了浪漫的色彩。从古至今山水画的流行致使人们将山水归总为一种流派，而不是作为一个概念。因此，人们经常把有关“山水”的作品与传统绘画联系在一起。《衍景 Climate: Contemporary Landscape in Flux》集合了七位艺术家从社会，文化和政治的角度讨论山水作为概念的变化。

 此次展览将于2月18日至5月31日在亚洲艺术研究所和 Kunstmatrix 的网上平台开幕。我们诚挚地邀请您参加我们2月的线上讨论会，与芝加哥艺术学院的嘉宾和艺术家进行一场思想上的碰撞！

策展团队Curatorial Team:
Shannon Lin 林婕珊, Tao Tao 陶陶, Xiaofeng Zhou 周小枫