Stream of changes

November event program at IZOLYATSIA started with lection about the development of contemporary chinese art. Independent expert and curator from Paris, Martina Keppel-Young was talking about official policy of China towards art and art tendencies developing outside of official stream. Listeners were intrigued by interpretations of Mao Zedong image, and also by Martina\'s opinion about works of Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang represented at exhibition "Cai Guo-Qiang - 1040M underground".».

Martina was talking about establishment of contemporary art in China and the way for actual Chinese art to take place in international art scene.

Path which was overcome by Chinese art during it\'s evolution and development since late 70-es is an important process: Chinese art-scene finally ended up with it\'s old function of servicing political interests and became multi-genre varied phenomenon. Different forms of art obtained their own space for existence and development. Traditional and contemporary arts bond together. Appearance of contemporary Chinese art can be explained by historical necessity. In her lecture, Martina mentioned that starting from 2000-ies Chinese government started to support contemporary art actively. In nearest future 1000 museums will be built in China.