Chinese Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennial To See a World in a Grain of Sand (Jian Wei Zhi Zhu 见微知著) 6 June – 22 November 2009 Exhibiting Artists: Fang Lijun, He Jinwei, He Sen, Liu Ding, Qiu Zhijie, Zeng Fanzhi and Zeng Hao Curators: Lu Hao, Zhao Li Giardino delle Vergini, Castello 2169 /F - 30122 Venezia Magazzino delle Cisterne, Castello 2169 /F -30122 Venezia
Beijing, May 19, 2009 - China Arts and Entertainment Group today formally announces Chinese Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennial, Venice, China’s third participation in the biannual international art exhibition – To See a World in a Grain of Sand (Jian Wei Zhi Zhu 见微知著). Internationally renowned Chinese artist Lu Hao, an important representative of post-1999 contemporary Chinese art, will curate To See a World in a Grain of Sand (Jian Wei Zhi Zhu 见
微知著), at the Virgini Garden, Arsenale. The Venice Biennial and the artist are no strangers: Lu Hao was invited to participate in the thematic exhibition of the 48th Venice Biennial, the 25th Sao Paulo Biennial and Documenta 12. As an associate professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, Zhao Li and a prolific critic, Zhao Li was able to take into consideration multiple perspectives in the selection process and in the laying out of the exhibition strategies; international and local, and those of the artistic and academic communities. His curation of the exhibition is an experiment with which to endow the Chinese Pavilion with more Chinese characteristics and to further focus attention on emerging artists from the region. To See a World in a Grain of Sand (Jian Wei Zhi Zhu 见微
知著) will seek to strengthen new forces burgeoning on the contemporary Chinese art scene, and to retain its international scope and vision without deviating from the latest trends emerging in the Chinese art world. The theme and title of the Chinese Pavilion, To See a World in a Grain of Sand (Jian Wei Zhi
Zhu 见微知著) comes from the translation of a Chinese idiom derived from the classic text by scholar and philosopher, Han Fei Zi·Shuo Lin Shang, signifying that trends in the future can be gleaned from the development from a tiny detail. Representing the realisation of a new value system the derivatives of which will continue to expand in the future, the exhibition will show Chinese society’s integration within the historical process into the multiplex, shifting and 1