Time for a change

Art of Change: New Directions from China is a major exhibition to focus on contemporary installation and performance art from China.

The exhibition in London presents large-scale installations and extraordinary live art by some of China's most innovative artists, including Wang Jianwei, Duan Yingmei, Sun Yuan, Xu Zhen and Peng Yu, in works dating from the 1980s to the present day.

It traces each artist's development, showing important early works alongside recent creations and new commissions. Change, and the acceptance that everything is subject to change, is deeply rooted in Eastern philosophy.

It features works that deal with transformation, instability and impermanence, looking at how these themes are conveyed through action or materials.

Each of the artists presents works that change their appearance over time or which are volatile or unpredictable in some way.

The exhibition itself changes as performances are enacted with various works during the course of each day.

Date: Till Dec 9

Venue: Hayward Gallery

Website: china.southbankcentre.co.uk

(China Daily 10/26/2012 page31)