EXHIBITION

A Great Event is in the Making. But No One has Noticed

Intelligentsia Gallery , Beijing, Beijing, 01/10/2016 - 02/10/2016

Dong Wang Hutong #11 Dong Cheng District Beijing

ABOUT

Intelligentsia Gallery is presenting ‘A Great Event is in the Making. But No One has Noticed’, a group exhibition with works by: APT artist Jason Mena (1975, Lives and works in Mexico City) , Engel Leonardo (b. 1977 Bani, Dominican Republic), Li Tingwei (b.1989 Yantai, China), Jeff Miller (b. 1987 Rhode Island, USA) and Thomas Schmidt (b. 1980 Alberta, Canada), Ada Sokó (b.1994 Wrocaw, Poland), Pussykrew, William Lee (b.1985 Beijing, China), Shao Yinong (b. 1970 Qinghai, China), Alena Olasyuk (b. 1988 Ukraine), Ju Anqi  (b. 1975 Urumqi, China), Matjaž Tan (b. 1982 Ljubljana, Slovenia ), Alessandro Rolandi (b. 1971 Pavia, Italy) Meng Zhigang  (b. 1975 Guilin, China ), Yu Bogong (b.1970 Inner Mongolia), Wu Ding (b. 1982, Shanghai), , Lena Tsibizova (b. 1988 Moscow), Olga Rodina (b. 1982 Moscow) and Anastasia Soboleva (b. 1989 Kostroma) of Troyka Union (Moscow), Garcia Frankowski (b. 1983 San Juan, b. 1985 Dundee), Oliver Haidutschek (b. 1976, Vienna) Ophelia S. Chan (b. 1985, Hong Kong), Ren Zhitian (b. 1968, Xishui), Xiao Xiao (b. 1984 Hunan), The Collective (Beijing), Camille Ayme (b. 1983, St Etienne) and Chen Xi (b. 1985 Wuhan(.

In a “room filled with the radiance of festive illumination and the assembled company”, a sense of anesthetizing detachment kept the ruling class from perceiving an upcoming substantial event in Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities. With a title eponymous to the last chapter of his unfinished novel, the exhibition explores the role played by the gathering of parallel stories unfolding while the establishment overlooks a looming threat. Away from the hegemonic constructions of market-oriented, nationalistic and academic imperatives, all-encompassing narratives, and opportunistic discourses, ‘A Great Event is in the Making. But No One has Noticed’, reclaims the vital ethos of enthusiasm and alertness, and proposes the underground space as conceptual incubator for the gestation of positions, discourses, ideologies, projects, discrepancies, disconnections, agencies, aspirations, performances and executions.

In occasion of its second anniversary, ‘A Great Event is in the Making. But No One has Noticed’ features 24 artistic positions in representation of each of the months since the foundation of Intelligentsia Gallery. Co-curated by Hao Chen, the gathering of works as a total installation proposes the exacerbation of the exhibition space as both container and action, contemplating a great event in the making, while no one else notices.

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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Jason Mena
Garcia Frankowski

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