Critical Point

“Critical Point” is the inaugural exhibition of Yuelai Art Museum (Chongqing), curated by Yu Ke and featuring six of China’s internationally influential artists, Liu Jianhua, Miao Xiaochun, Sui Jianguo, Wang Jianwei, Wang Luyan and Xu Zhen®. The exhibition hopes to conceptualize the possibility of linking the relationship between art and technology, and in doing so, to expand the active space of contemporary art. “Criticality” is a physical concept that describes the boundary state that two different mediums, ‘art’ and ‘science’, may reach today or in the future as they approach each other indefinitely. The artist Wang Jianwei’s

Artist Wang Jianwei’s “Cambrian No.6” and other installations and paintings are also on display in the exhibition “Criticality”. The “Cambrian” series deepens multiple thoughts on geological energy, overcapacity, and economic expansion, which collide with each other to generate new geopolitical relationships – real cold landscapes are generated from chips, and sharp stainless steel installations are made from minerals in the Cambrian strata. The real cold landscape comes from the generation of chips, the sharp stainless steel device is taken from minerals in the Cambrian strata, and the engine turbine can be traced back to the oil in the shale layer. As the artist writes, “…… Algorithms determine the clarity of the mountains, filters add to the reality of ‘nature’ …… The distant determines the present, the The underground rules the sky, and thanks to their presence, keeps us from being too confident.”