You are cordially invited to the public talk Youhan and Yu Youhan: Yu Youhan's Early Experience and Late Style by curators Liu Ding & Carol Yinghua Lu. Please see the details below and register in advance if you are interested. 

 

Speakers: Liu Ding & Carol Yinghua Lu

Moderator: Yongwoo Lee (Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies, CUHK)

 

Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=3213533

 

Abstract:

The exhibition Youhan and Yu Youhan: Yu Youhan's Early Experience and Late Style will present a comprehensive exploration of the renowned artist Yu Youhan (1943-2023). The exhibition will focus on two significant phases of his artistic development: his formative years, marked by the so called “cultural fever” of the 1980s, which sought to merge Western modernism with China's cultural heritage; and his late style, from 2002 to 2019, during which he revisits and incorporates his early influences and his extensive life experiences into his artistic experimentation.

As the first survey exhibition of his oeuvre after his passing in 2023, this presentation will detail the research process by curators that informed the exhibition and discuss how the research findings were translated into a compelling exhibition format. The exhibition will open on March 25, preceding Art Basel Hong Kong week and providing a unique opportunity to engage with Yu Youhan's remarkable legacy.

 

About the speakers:

LIU Ding, Carol Yinghua LU have worked collaboratively as a research and curatorial team since 2007. They were the artistic directors for the 8^th Yokohama Triennale (2024). They have curated many shows, including: Trans-Southeast Asia Triennial: Sounds as Silence: The Academic Value of Life (2021), Anren Biennale: Crossroads (2017), Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale (2012), Little Movements: Self-practice in Contemporary Art I\II\III (2011 in OCAT Shenzhen, China; 2013 in MUSEION, Bolzano, Italy and, 2015 in ACC, Gwangju, Korea), and Liberation (2010). Since 2013, they have curated a series of thematic and solo exhibitions based on their ongoing research on the resonance of socialist realism in contemporary art in China.

 

LIU Ding

LIU Ding is an artist and a curator based in Beijing. His artistic and curatorial practice focuses on multiple viewpoints and modes of description, exploring a trajectory of discursive thoughts that connect the historical and the contemporary. His work seeks to broaden possibilities for a more manifold understanding of the historical narrative of subjectivity within Chinese art.

 

Carol Yinghua LU

LU is an art historian and a curator based in Beijing. She holds a Doctorate in art history from University of Melbourne. She is the director of Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum. She was a recipient of the ARIAH (Association of Research Institute in Art History) East Asia Fellowship (2017) and visiting fellow in the Asia-Pacific Fellowship Program at the Tate Research Centre (2013).

 

This talk is co-organised by Master of Arts in Cultural Management Programme, CUHK and YING Center for Contemporary Art, and supported by the Centre for Cultural Studies, CUHK.

 

Enquiry: haoqianyu@cuhk.edu.hk