Nanke Gallery is pleased to announce the gallery's inaugural exhibition Evolution: Singularity, which will be presented in Shanghai on 22 April 2023. The exhibition is curated by renowned German writer and curator Heinz-Norbert Jocks (b.1955), who was the curator of Liu Xiaodong's first European retrospective in Düsseldorf in 2018. Evolution: Singularity will feature representative works by six young Chinese artists, including the artists Kunniao Tong (b.1990), Meng Zhou (b.1992), Muhan Wu (1997), Wencun Chen (b.1991), Xiaochi Dong (b.1993), and Mo Tong (b.1999). These artists work in the mediums of painting, lithography and kinetic installation, many of them using ready-made objects as their source material, through which they explore the three dimensions of time, life and the question of existence.
The title Evolution: The Singularity reveals that art evolves in an evolutionary way and at the same time represents the uniqueness of the artists. New things do not come out of nowhere, but build on old ones, and artistic interpretations of the real world can be expressed as a kind of cheerful or melancholic imagination. The concept of a 'singularity' in mathematics is a 'point that cannot be defined', while in physics it refers to a singular form that existed before the Big Bang. Perhaps the everyday objects we take for granted today, even the toilet, are made up of atoms created billions of years ago, i.e. any form of existence originated from that singularity. Thus, the differences between people and things are not as vast as we might think.
