In CoBrB Gallery's joint exhibition with Aman Yangyun in Shanghai, we present two chapters of works by Huang Rui, Ma Kelu, Qian Jiahua, Marianne Hesselbjerg, Marcin rusak, Marta kucsora, Vanessa Barragão, Poul henningsen, and other national and international artists and designers. Vanessa Barragão, Poul henningsen, and other national and international art and design figures.
The theme of the exhibition, “All That Breathes”, is inspired by a reflection on the relationship between nature and humanity, and is visualized from different perspectives in two chapters: “Time” and “Materialistic”. The phrase “moving with time, responding to change” is taken from Sima Qian's “The Records of the Grand Historian - Preface to the Grand Historian”, in which the Grand Historian expresses his thoughts on time and change, which can still be seen in the inheritance of this Taoist thought more than a thousand years later. Aman was born out of a migration of Ming and Qing Dynasty houses from Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province. The ancient houses and the trees that came with them condensed time into a single moment and recreated the unique Gan legacy in Shanghai. Through the integration of the ancient houses and trees, Chinese antique furniture, and the artists' representative works in the past, we retell the past time, and explore the mingling and coexistence between tradition and modernity, the East and the West, and art and life.
