Opening: May 12th, 2006 3P.M.
Opening Reception: F1, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, 580 Ouyang Road, Hongkou District, Shanghai
Date: May 12th – June 6th, 2006
Venue A: F1-3, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum
Venue B: F1-3, F6, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art

Influenced by the experience in the contemporary domain, artworks frame themselves in certain contexts while the exhibitions are more and more involved in the visual contexts. Between the works/exhibitions and environment/background are enacted the response, dialogue and communication, which lead to the norms, methodology and trends of art conveyance. When arts enjoy a growing speech power and exhibitions reap a swelling economy, an overlap of concept can be traced in shows and artworks; in other words, exhibition-oriented artwork or exhibition-as-an-artwork marks a new fashion. Thus art exhibitions, ever changing within the context of contemporary visual art, have made their unique and solid contribution to the society. The ink painting through the constant renewal, based on the vintage of Chinese culture, is confronted with a new context of development. The global contemporary society sees the ink painting, within the visual context and thus arrives at the logic to its evolution. It reaches a breaking point where the restoration retains the possibility that is generated by the present theory of display and exhibition as well as the visual presentation. 

Presented by: Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, International Data Group
Date: April 15th ---May 7th, 2006
Venue: Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art.

In the contemporary art world, it is becoming increasingly rare to see an art exhibition composed entirely of paintings. The current trend seems to be to exhibit primarily video, photography, and installation works. However, painting can still be a compelling form of artistic expression, as evidenced by the show----Future Landscapes. In this show, artists who work in or near Shanghai convey the anxiety and excitement of living in a rapidly changing urban environment.

The works create an invisible pictorial climate within the gallery space in order to present autonomous life, which is perhaps the best definition of painting.

Pink Twins

Date: November 25, 2005 20:00
Venue: Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art
Artists: Pink Twins

The Finnish duo Pink Twins, the brothers Vesa and Juha Vehvil?inen, started to work together in 1997. Since then they have been exploring visual and sonic noise combined in a most physical experience. Sampling the everyday images and tearing them apart to pixels then putting them together again to a chaotic and blasting unity.

In their works, in such as Purple Drain (2002) and Goth (2003), they have transferred the reality to a abstract flow of flickering colourful images and scratchy and noisy sounds. Using their own developed program Framestein, programmed by Juha, the images in real-time transferred to an own aesthetic of digital everchanging visions reminding of powerful paintings and where the original input is hardly recognisable. The fact that they use common images as a input seems not very important since the output seems to have very little to do with normal perception.

Scratches, fuzz, noises and weird and warped rhythms are combined with images to a mosaic flow that which you perceive not only with your seeing but with all your senses. The result spellbinds you and surrounds you with a complexity. What they achieve puts you inside a digital dynamic weave of crumbles of the reality.

L’art pour l’art can be descriptive for Pink Twins works but maybe there is more a direct and physical experience of the art than an experience through theory and intellectuality. And this gives Pink Twins the advantage.