CIGE 2009 Special Project SUBLIMINALS

SUBLIMINALS 2009 are organized in collaboration with international governmental cultural centers, not-for-profit organizations and private foundations.

The projects would like to focus in particular on the activities of international artists who are currently based in Beijing or have entered in direct contact with China in the past.

SUBLIMINALS would like to examine the local environment in which we live and work and point out its cultural and bio diversity, presenting the works of international artists as reaction to their direct contact and experiences in Beijing.

Artists who have adapted to life in particular local environments, acquiring in-depth knowledge of people, the relationships among them, and learning how to tailor their practices to suit these places.

This also means learning how to enter in contact and use local resources, and often enhance them, contributing to bring difference and variety to the environment itself, which is fundamental for its sustainable development.

Participating Institutions:
Amdavad Ni Gufa Museum, Ahmedabad, India
Austrian Cultural Forum, Beijing
Casa Asia, Madrid, Barcelona, Spain
Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Beijing
Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic, Beijing
Embassy of the Republic of Cuba, Beijing
Embassy of Ireland, Beijing
Italian Institute of Culture, Beijing
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

Amdavad Ni Gufa Museum, Ahmedabad, India
M.F. Hussain
Installation view from Amdavad Ni Gufa Museum, Ahmedabad, India


Austrian Cultural Forum, Beijing, China
Lukas Birk
Untitled 1
90x70 cm
Lambda print / Aluminium mounted


Casa Asia, Madrid, Barcelona, Spain
Jose Manuel Ballester
Vista de Hong Kong 2
2006
Photography on Fuji Cristal Archive paper
179x253cm


Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Beijing, China
Karla Zapata, Nelson Jovandaric, Gustavo Rugeles, Alfredo Paris,
DAWEI
2009
Installation image


Embassy of the Republic of Cuba, Beijing, China
Gilberto Frómeta
CACHITA AND THE SEA
2007
105 x 80 cm
Mixed media on canvas


Embassy of Ireland, Beijing, China
Varvara Shavrova
UNTOUCHED
2008
DV pal, 33mins
Video stills


Italian Institute of Culture, Beijing, China
Marco Foltran,
Da Vinci, duihua ∞ Laozi, comunica,
2009
230-160 cm
Video canvas (oil monotype-video projection)


Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
OUR FUTURE
UCCA entrance's view, Beijing, China

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