From the beginning to the end, the Cicadas existed in Zou Qionghui’s art works as a symbol of life, and then established the meaning of her works as a cue. To be one kind of insects, the cicada has its unique pattern of life cycle: the larva of cicada has to go through a miraculous ecdysis, it will “walk out” of its body, and leave its outer form alone. The artist was awakened by the continuity and rebirth of its life cycle, as she collected amounts of cicadas to create her installation art works, and the cicadas turned into a visual symbol of her abstract art, by implying the human life metaphorically. Every year, people spend the summer at leisure with the chirping of cicadas, and the Chinese poets always put the cicadas in their poems: “the forest is more peaceful while cicadas are chirping, the mountain is more secluded while the birds are singing” (by Wang Ji), and “the summer on the past is hasten on by the cicadas, the autumn on the new is bring on by the wild goose” (by Bai Juyi). The art of Zou Qionghui brings the audience to the ancient poetic realm, and furthermore, it brings art into a new cultural construction by new conception, new schema, and new materials.

Opening time：4pm, May 24, 2014

Duration: 2014.05.25 -- 2014.06.03

Location: 2nd Floor Exhibition Hall of Building No. 2, Today Art Museum

Address: Today Art Museum, Building 4, Pingod Community, No. 32, Baiziwan Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Tel: 010-58760600