One Way Space Discussion: Xiang Jing x Jonathan Fineberg / Contemporary Art — Is Our Proposition Disappearing Now?

2017-12

On the evening of December 19, 2017, a talk betweeen Xiang Jing and art historian Jonathan Fineberg is held at One Way Space (Joy City branch) in Beijing.

As the writer of "Contemporary Art Since 1940", Jonathan has an acute observation on the particular issues in Chinese contemporary art in the global context with the perspective of an art historian; whereas Xiang Jing as an artist who has experienced all the transformations in Chinese contemporary art in the past 30 years, how the focus has shifted from the collectivism to an individualized narrative. The destiny and proposition of contemporary art change in our times. How does art shift its social value — in the times when artificial intelligence is becoming a hot topic today, is art history going through a turning point?

"Xiang Jing" (Complete Catalogue) by CITIC Press is also launched on the same occasion. Professor Fineberg writes a critical essay named "At the Rainbow Edge", providing a clear overview and understanding of Xiang Jing's oeuvre over the past 20 years.

Jonathan Fineberg
University Professor and Director of the Ph.D. at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Jonathan Fineberg earned his B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, and his M.A. from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London,  He has curated more than a dozen museum exhibitions, and previously taught at Yale and at the University of Illinois. 
His selected books include: Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being (Pearson, forthcoming from Hunan Fine Arts Press); Christo and Jeanne-Claude: On the Way to the Gates (Yale & Metropolitan Museum of Art); Zhang Xiaogang: Disquieting Memories (Phaidon), etc. He is currently working on a three-volume survey of art in The Twentieth Century.