Platform China Contemporary Art Institute is pleased to announce we will present Group Exhibition in Summer: To Youth at 4pm, May 18, 2019. The exhibition will last until Jun 30, 2019.

The exhibition To Youth is not trying to play nostalgia up, but about the recognition and expression of the authentic life. In the era of data rationality, while utilitarianism and consumerism are prevailing, romantic feelings and will have been ignored bit by bit. At this point, reviewing the meaning of the innocence and ideal, to respond what is youth, what does youth mean, everyone will give different answers. It can be romance, passion, detachment, and mystery. However it also easily falls into decadence, insipidity, dejection, and mediocrity. Discussing the influence of the diversity and complexity of youth experience on the work of artists involves the investigation of thematic content, formal language, psychological implication, and some other dimensions. The works of 33 artists will be presented in the exhibition, with individualized expressions and rhetoric, revealing their views on youth.

The following quotes from Samuel Ullman’s famous essay Youth as a poetic introduction and inspiration to the exhibition:

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind;

it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions;

it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.

Participating Artists:

Bi Jianye/ Dong Jinling/ Feng Lin/ Fu Jingyan/ Ge Hui/ Hu Wei/ Huang Liang/ Jia Aili/ Jin Shan/ Li Ming/ Lin Aojie/ Liu Chengrui/ Liu Gangshun/ Lou Shenyi/ Ma Ke/ Qi Wenzhang/ Qin Qi/ Qiu Rui Xiang/ Shi Xinning/ Song Ta/ Song Yuanyuan/ Tang Dayao/ Tong Kunniao/ Wang Yin/ Xiao Jiang/ Xiao Bo/ Xu Cheng/ Zhang Hao/ Zhang Ran/ Zhang Yue/ Zhao Gang/ Zhao Tingyang/ Zhou Yilun

The exhibition is curated by Wang Jiang.