Preface

When a people's ideas for others to accept called hinted; When a person's mood for others to feel when called sympathy; When a person's action for others to emulate called imitate. Of course, in real life, whether thoughts, feelings or action can produce a hint. Normally, suggests that is active, conscious, and be suggests that often is passive.

We know, image function is hidden. In our confrontation with pictures, since we see an and inwardly could detect he was watching, but the images greatly change and blur to see and be seen relationships, it lifted a wary of people, and correspondingly produce ideologies have the end of illusion. This to see and be seen consciousness of the inverted, also from "consumption" support. If, in the mid 1980s "art trendy sports" is a time for real life helplessly accept and agree with, then, in recent years a substantial part of their work is another kind of accepting and identity. It is not present, make the power we produce ideologies have the end of illusion or illusion. In recent years to form the painting of huankantou in-depth exploration and experiment. In a sense, also can saying is we and realistic established too "sweet" relationship. It is in this sweet relationship, we gradually abandoned further inquiry of reality, thus satisfied with the narrative of representation. Sharp's thoughts and critical loss, also led to the loss of the ability of our questions.

"Who Suggested" is a very open topic, it contains the many can be extended, and discussion of the subject, the scattered that reference plane can be very extensive. If we put the painting for a kind of understanding, then "narrative" in any kind of narrative, hidden behind concept. Relying on the idea to organize all kinds of narrative material, and structure into works, resulting in meaning. But some obvious, some hidden depths just. Therefore, forms of conflict, usually means that ideas of the conflict. Absolutely the ultimate truth does not exist, narrative reappear just led us to keep the truth approximation.

Let us begin from "painting" on this issue via another temporarily to evacuate, we have been path entering the topic of discussion. When ideas to an extreme, especially formed a so-called "internal and external" two completely opposite to its existence, people all the contact virtually context was natural cut off. At that time, ethics, of good and evil in the tenacious blocking people further inquiry of existence. The so-called "inner narrative", also began to evolve to a narcissistic type pleading.

For "Who Suggested" the complexity of the individual is no longer be common or richness to the inner narrative depicting or. Individual is no longer a certain knowledge concept formed under the control norm, but open, sports concept of its existence by the ideology of organic recovery contact again. It is in this kind of connection, the person's complexity or richness just may present or reproduction.

We are in the world, already more and more is professional division into innumerable "separate pieces". When grand narrative replaced by the individual experience, "Who Suggested" but often have a restructuring daily desire. Hard to say this is a grand narrative, but it is a difficult recreate the effort.

This exhibition with "Who Suggested" as the theme, invited to painting as the main art means "Who Suggested" – Wang Yabin, Xu Hong, Zhu Cunwei, Ceng Yang, Ge Zhen, Wei Yan, they from Beijing, Henan, Nanjing, Sichuan, etc, in their respective painting domain has further exploration. Chinese contemporary art from the initial development today, a simple copy of copycat, with 30 years’ time to walk the road of development of western 300 years of savage growth, but it is facing ontology culture form of language and western aesthetics system integration, alternate. "Who Suggested" as the era of "alternative draw this", will give us this era what kind of enlightenment or may provide?

"Who Suggested" group exhibition is launched in this context, to explore and experiment in form, even then too extreme, it also indicates that there is a force to re-wind and water. The exhibition will be June 4, 2011, No. 95 Moganshan Road in the Silverstone grand opening of space, the exhibition will last until July 1.