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DESCRIPTION:Media@McGill presents:\n\n\n\nHidden from History: the Mexican 
 Influence on Chinese Art\n\nWhen: February 27\, 2014 at 5:30 p.m. \n\nWher
 e: Arts W-215 (McGill University)\n\nAbstract\n\nExchange\, dialogue and m
 igration between societies have occurred throughout the history of art and
  continue to impact our society today.  Many believe the “open policy” of 
 China and Western influence are the two motivating forces creating contemp
 orary Chinese art. Very few acknowledge foreign influence occurring prior 
 to the opening of China in 1979\, especially during the mid-twentieth cent
 ury when China was completely closed to the West. Owing to China’s politic
 al inclinations from the early 1950s to the late 1970s\, they chose to eng
 age only with countries of the “Third World.” Mexico was one such country 
 invited into dialogue with China. The exchange produced interesting influe
 nces largely overlooked by today’s scholars.\n\nThe contact between Mexico
  and China can be found in the early 1930s. The major exchange took place 
 in 1950s after the People’s Republic of China was established. Public art 
 created by Mexican artists and their ideas excited and inspired young Chin
 ese artists\, presenting alternatives to the Soviet socialist-realistic st
 yle. Many artists of the avant-garde movement in the 1980s remember that i
 t was Mexican art that encouraged and nourished them at the earlier age of
  their career. This lecture will introduce the hidden history of this dyna
 mic cultural exchange between two great cultures in the past century.\n\nB
 iography\n\nZheng Shengtian\, Managing Editor of Yishu\, is a scholar\, ar
 tist\, and independent curator. For more than thirty years\, he worked at 
 China Academy of Art in Hangzhou as Professor and Chair of the Oil Paintin
 g Department. He was the co-founder of the Vancouver International Centre 
 for Contemporary Asian Art and currently is the Managing Editor of Yishu: 
 Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art and a trustee of Vancouver Art Gallery
 . He has been a member of the Academic Committee for the Shanghai Biennale
  since 1998 and was a co-curator of the 4th Shanghai Biennale in 2004. He 
 has organized numerous exhibitions\, including Shanghai Modern at Villa St
 uck\, Munich\, Art and China’s Revolution at Asia Society Museum\, New Yor
 k in 2009. He is the Senior Curator of Asia for Vancouver Biennale and is 
 a frequent contributor to periodicals and catalogues about contemporary Ch
 inese and Asian art. As an artist\, his art work has been showing in China
 \, United States and Canada since 1960s.\n
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LOCATION:Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue Sherbrooke 
 Ouest
SUMMARY:Media@McGill 'Participatory Media' | Zheng Shengtian | 'Hidden from
  History: The Mexican Influence on Chinese Art'
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/event/mediamcgill-participatory
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