Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection

September 10, 2008 - January 4, 2009

O Zhang will exhibit works among ninety-six other contemporary Chinese artists at the Berkeley Museum of Art as well as an artist talk in the museum on Sept. 13th.

Chinese art has undergone enormous changes over the forty-year period from the Cultural Revolution to today. This transformation, at times glacially slow and at other times explosively fast, is represented at BAM/PFA this fall in artworks from the Sigg Collection, on view in the BAM Galleries, and in the films of Jia Zhangke and Ning Ying at the PFA Theater. 

In 141 works by ninety-six artists, the exhibition Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collectionrepresents the historical span of art from the 1970s to today in China and demonstrates the dramatic evolution that has occurred, with artists exploring new materials and concepts far from what might have been imagined by even the most clairvoyant. As Chinese art emerged from the boundaries of state-sponsored and state-defined aesthetics to the complex initiatives of individuals with new intentions and motivations, it is possible to see the growth and development not only of art but of a nation....

Read the press release in its entirety here

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Special admission for Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, effective September 10, 2008, through January 4, 2009