EXHIBITION

Form is a Habit-Forming Drug

Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, Beijing, 04/23/2016

2 Wenchengxiang Hutong, Dongcheng, Beijing, China

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Intelligentsia Gallery is excited to present ‘Form is a Habit-Forming Drug’, a group exhibition with works by Wu Ding (b. 1982 Shanghai), Russell Beighton (b. 1974 Derbyshire), Christopher Rey Perez (b. 1987 Alamo), Florian Kuhlmann (b. 1977 Bozen), Garcia Frankowski (b. 1983 San Juan & b. 1985 Dundee).

Carl Jung argued that archetypes were universal forms embedded in the collective unconscious, that is, on the minds of people everywhere independent of time and place. Semiotics, semiology, and other philosophical questions put at the forefront of intellectual conquest the search of multiple manifestations of form. 

Simultaneously the ultimate plateau and an allegorical vehicle, form has long been part of the constructions and abstractions of philosophies and schools of thought regarding logic, language, metaphysics or the subconscious. Form is explored by a wide range of approaches whether Pythagorean, Aristotelian, Platonic or Kantian , from the Vhkutemas to the Bauhaus, from the universal depictions of Sengai Gibon to the constructions of Aleksander Rodchenko. 

Borrowing its title from Hao Chen’s ‘Dreamer’ prose, ‘Form is a Habit-Forming Drug’ explores the subliminal and the sublime when it comes to our perpetual relationship with form. 

Curated with Hao Chen and Mihuhu, the exhibition presents the infiltrations of form into the ways of making, consuming and understanding. It explores the ways in which form concretizes in poetry, and text, in compositions and moving images, in philosophy and humor its habit-forming relentlessness, developing collective addictions like a universal drug.

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