Landscape: the virtual, the actual, the possible?

Exhibitions

Landscape: the virtual, the actual, the possible?

October 24, 2014–January 25, 2015

The exhibition Landscape: the virtual, the actual, the possible? considers visual, perceptual, and conceptual systems that have become increasingly unstable, both physically and metaphorically. Across various regions, situations, and contexts, artists are tracking our changing experience of nature in image making, reproduction, and replication. The voluntary organization of the landscape, the making of natural, intentional, and artificial gardens, and nature’s disruption of the urban built environment—all of these have found their way into our contemporary visual thinking. Through the lens of landscape, the exhibition poses the following questions: What is the mirror effect between landscape and technology, and how does each inform how we understand and experience ourselves and others? The featured artworks touch upon subjects such as nature, landscape, the urban garden, virtual reality, digital technology systems, and their junctures. The show’s title refers to Félix Guattari’s “four ontological functors”: the virtual, the actual, the real, and the possible.

Works by: Lucas Blalock, Elina Brotherus, Marcelo Cidade, Tacita Dean, Charles Gaines, Vidya Gastaldon, Paul Kos, Liang Shuo, Anthony McCall, Alicia McCarthy, Charlotte Moth, Simon Pyle, Hiraki Sawa, Maaike Schoorel, Lois Weinberger, Zhao Renhui, Zhou Tao, Toby Ziegler. New commissions by Chen Xiaoyun, Tsang Kin-Wah, and Zheng Guogu.

Installation view, Landscape: the virtual, the actual, the possible?, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2014. Images courtesy Phocasso and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.

Lucas Blalock

Elina Brotherus

Chen Xiaoyun

Marcelo Cidade

Tacita Dean

Charles Gaines

Vidya Gastaldon

Paul Kos

Liang Shuo

Anthony McCall

Alicia McCarthy

Charlotte Moth

Simon Pyle

Hiraki Sawa

Maaike Schoorel

Tsang Kin-Wah

Lois Weinberger

Robert Zhao Renhui

Zheng Guogu

Zhou Tao

Toby Ziegler

The Guangdong Times Museum

The Guangdong Times Museum was funded by the Times Property in 2003. During the D-Lab project of the 2nd Guangzhou Triennial in 2005, Rem Koolhaas and Alain Fouraux were invited to design a conceptualized permanent building for the Museum, which was completed in September 2010. Registered as a non-profit organization, the Guangdong Times Museum opened its doors to the public in October 2012. Throughout the process of conceptualization, design, and completion, the museum has reflected the unique social, economic, and cultural conditions of the Pearl River Delta. The Guangdong Times Museum is dedicated to the research and presentation of contemporary art and related cultural ideas as well as to the promotion of local, public, and interdisciplinary artistic practices and cultural production. It is not only a venue for exhibitions but also a space for the stimulation of artistic practices and cultural production, an active community cultural center, and a platform for the promotion of art development in the area. Through a series of exhibitions, projects, and public cultural events, the Guangdong Times Museum proactively explores the diverse and multi-dimensional relations between artistic practices, cultural production, the public, and urban public sphere.

Kadist Art Foundation

Kadist Art Foundation encourages the contribution of the arts to society, conducting programs primarily with artists represented in its collection to promote their role as cultural agents. Kadist’s collections and productions reflect the global scope of contemporary art, and its programs develop collaborations between Kadist’s local contexts (Paris, San Francisco) and artists, curators and art institutions worldwide. By establishing a deep partnership through a collaborative framework, Kadist Art Foundation initiated the Kadist Curatorial Collaboration (KCC) as part of the Foundation’s mission of fostering effective and sensitive cultural exchanges. KCC promotes the collaborations between international art institutions and Kadist’s local contexts (Paris or San Francisco) through the presentation of exhibitions.

Brochure for Landscape: the virtual, the actual, the possible?

“Through the lens of landscape, the exhibition poses the following questions: What is the mirror effect between landscape and technology, and how does each inform how we understand and experience ourselves and the other? How did different perspectives and approaches affect our mental images of landscapes?”

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This exhibition features many works from the Kadist Art Foundation, and was organized by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Kadist Art Foundation, and the Guangdong Times Museum. Exhibition design by Kyu Che Studio.

YBCA Exhibitions 14-15 are made possible, in part, by Mike Wilkins and Sheila Duignan, Meridee Moore and Kevin King, the Creative Ventures Council, and Members of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is grateful to the City of San Francisco for its ongoing support.

Media Sponsor: Art Practical