With globalization as the backdrop, the 2002 Shanghai Bienniale focuses on problems of city culture, architecture and issues of urbanization. It is also an attempt to integrate visual art and architecture by showcasing paintings, models, sculptures, photographs, texts, sketches, video and interactive media that examine urban condition in a global context. As noted by Fang Zengxian, Executive Director of the Organizing Committee of Shanghai Biennale 2002, 'Our starting point and also our ultimate wish is to encourage audience to pay attention to art as a way to care about present life and living reality, and to meditate upon current city construction more deeply.'
The catalogue includes a preface by Ma Bomin, forewords by Fang Zengxian and Handel Lee, artist biographies and descriptions of works.
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Chinese - Simplified
2002
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catalogue
Overlooking Cities - XU Jiang, 許江
Illustrating the City - Several Notes to the Concept for the 2002 Shanghai Biennale - FAN Dian, 范迪安
Status Quo of Contemporary Chinese Architecture - WU Jiang, 伍江
Chinese New Art in the Time of Urbanization - LI Xu, 李旭
Finding Beaury in Function: Art and Architecture in the Contemporary Urban Environment - Alanna HEISS
Urban Creation, Urban Space and Urban Representation - Klaus BIESENBACH
On the Mutation of the City - Yuko HASEGAWA, 長谷川祐子
Shanghai Biennale 2002: Urban Creation, 2002上海雙年展: 都市營造
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