Clay sculpture Terracota Army by Fernando Sanchez Castillo (Photo/Courtesy of Today Art Museum)
It's not often that an exhibition in China gets three unrelated names in three different languages, but that is exactly what the latest exhibition at the Today Art Museum in Beijing has done.
Showcasing works by 50 artists from around the world, the exhibition is known as The Jumble of Growth in English, BRIC-à-brac in French and goes by the title Lingyizhong Xuanze (Lit: Another Choice) in Chinese.
According to the exhibition's two curators, Huang Du and Gerardo Mosquera, the exhibition is divided into four sections: The Jumble of Growth, Chaotic Space, Discourse Practice and Individual Narrative, and Microscopic Bodies.
Artworks on display include installation works such as Cloaca N 5 from Belgium artist Wim Delvoye, Mexican artist Marcos Ramirez Erre's painting City Portraits, as well as Spanish artist Fernando Sanchez Castillo's clay sculpture Terracota Army.
"Art expresses something that we share in the world. People may know where Panama is and what it looks like, but one of the works shows how the city is changing as global investment rushes in. Many old buildings are disappearing while an increasing amount of new and modern ones dominate. This is actually happening everywhere in the world," Huang said at its opening on Saturday.
Sponsored by the National Art Fund with support from the Spanish Embassy to China, the exhibition is scheduled to end on March 5.
