2016年CRI The Jumble of Growth Exhibition to Unveil in December（在线收听）

Around 50 artists from some Latin American and European countries will present their artworks in Beijing at the Today Art Museum in early December. 

These artworks are chosen to emphasize the cultural subjectivity of emerging countries and their independent cultural development. 

Jonathan Harris, head of Birmingham School of Art at Birmingham City University in England, thinks these artworks will also exhibit typicality in social development worldwide.

"In what ways, will these artworks be seen to be evidence of kinds of changes that are taking place in the world or evidence of arguments within the world about how the world is changed? So typicality is just an idea you can trace back through the 20th century in all kinds of critical thinking actually. It's a really important motif for the way the exhibition will be organized."

In addition to highlighting the independence in different cultures, the exhibition, titled the Jumble of Growth, will also present the hybrid power spurt in the course of globalization. 

Jonathan Harris, however, expresses his interest in seeing how these artists will explore the idea of global art. 

"Despite now twenty years of thinking around the idea of global contemporary art, the arguments about whether there's such a thing is global art, and what that might mean have not been settled yet. So I'm looking forward to see how the curators with the artists that they have chosen will explore this idea that there are some categories of new objects or new way of thinking, which is intrinsically global in some sense."

Meanwhile, some Chinese artists, including Ni Haifeng, Lu Yang and Wang Guofeng will also join the exhibition, reflecting on the relationship between Chinese contemporary art and international artistic trends. 

The Jumble of Growth exhibition will open on December 10th and will run for three months.