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Nu Yishu Series V: Viriditas
女 艺 术 系 列 五“ 青 绿”
An Australia- China Contemporary Arts Exchange Project.
The Artists 2000 Foundation Incorporated is proud to introduce a fresh, approach to Contemporary female artists engaging with each other.
As an ‘Imagine Australia’ event the ‘Nu Yishu’ project focuses on untangling misconceptions about the ‘other culture’ regarding Contemporary Art practise, broadening and opening opportunities for discussion on individual, cultural and social perspectives.
Nu Yishu (女 艺 术 Female Art) Series V: Viriditas is the latest in an ongoing series of separate but interconnected art exhibitions aimed at creating transglobal links; the impetus behind ‘nu yishu’ (Mandarin for female art) is the development of cultural exchange between Australian and Chinese artists.
Viriditas: “青 绿”
Viriditas denotes lushness and vitality. It has been translated in various ways, such as freshness, fertility, fecundity, fruitfulness, verdure, or growth.
The term comes from Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), an inspirational woman, who coined the term viriditas - the greening power of God. She described this power as the agent of the God, a divine attribute that was the animating life-force within all creation giving it life, moisture and vitality.
‘Nu Yishu Series V: Viriditas’ brings together six Chinese and six Australian female artists. The intention, through pairing and collaboration, is for each artist to respond to their artist partner, their art practice, philosophy, theories, techniques and influences, thereby increasing knowledge and understanding of the two cultures and delivering this to a broader audience.
The twelve artists, whose art practices span installation, painting, photography, ceramics, assemblage and performance, from vastly different heritages and language base, are partnered to form six pairs. Each pair, whose art practice consists of different disciplines, for example a Chinese painter and Australian ceramic artist, are interacting, communicating and engaging with the other, creating new artwork utilizing the skills in which they are professional.
The Australian artists are rich in cultural diversity with heritages from Italy, Hungary, France, England and Indigenous Australia.
The major difference between the Chinese and Australian artists is age. Not the age of the individual, but the age of historical development, the age of their cultures and heritages, that significantly underpins their place in the world at this time. While Chinese cultural heritage can be traced back 5000 to 6000 years and white Australia less than 250 years, indigenous Australians, represented by Koori artist Megan Cadd, have lived and developed their culture for more than 40,000 years on this continent. This project gives emerging indigenous artist Megan Cadd the opportunity to represent and promote an accurate image of Indigenous Australians through her unique art making form.
Nu Yishu Series V: Viriditas opens an exchange that increases knowledge and understanding with an outcome through art making processes and collaborative creation that stimulates further audience dialogue regarding differences and similarities between ‘East and West’.
Participating Artists:
China -
Cai Jin 蔡錦 Gao Yuan 高媛
Xu Xiaoyan 徐晓燕 Feng Ling 堸翎
Huang Yin 黄引 Xie Dong 谢 东
Australia -
Liliana Barbieri Megan Cadd
Dawn Csutoros Judy Trembath
Jane Annois Denise Keele-bedford
Nu Yishu Series V: Viriditas 2011 exhibition schedule:
March 2nd - 26th Manningham Gallery
699 Doncaster Road - Doncaster Australia
April 23rd - May 11th Tianjin - China
May 29th Opening at Beijing
This Project is supported by:
"Imagine Australia" - The Year of Australian Culture in China 2010 - 2011
"想象澳大利亚" - 澳大利亚文化年 2010 - 2011
https://imagineaustralia.net/en/
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