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>unknown *– Per Hüttner at Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall**

/Co-curated by Li Xiaofei and Alessandra Sandrolini/

Within his artistic body of work, Per Hüttner engages in an aesthetic 
and existential quest for personal freedom and its ensuing frictions. To 
pursue this liberation, he looks for ways to renegotiate the 
relationships between the individual and the collective, in the social, 
political and spiritual spheres, and to push further the boundaries of 
human experience and knowledge.

For this sculptural installation, the artist creates a liquid space 
where moving images and a select number of objects become a part of a 
complex system of interconnected ideas.

Four videos form the hub of the exhibition and show mysterious rituals 
enacted by various characters. The films reveal an intimate and sensual 
love for the secret knowledge hidden in nature and culture. The 
characters are engaged in the poetic act of eating books or fruits of 
peculiar flowers. Even though they are acted by different actors, it 
seems that we pry into the life of the same human subject. The images 
show mundane situations that have been shifted ever so slight to reveal 
the vastness of the unknown in our everyday experience. Simply and 
wisely, the artist invites the viewer to break the subtle frame of 
reality and limited illusion and to embrace the unknown.

Three cobblestones are presented in the exhibition. They are central 
cells of the exhibition’s brain, but these typical props of revolution 
and construction are each closed in a glass-case, suggesting a 
museological connection. Hüttner’s work engages in an intellectual and 
cognitive search of the complex relationship between the political, the 
social and the aesthetic of the revolutionary process and deconstructs a 
monolithic vision of reality. Instead of a binary system of thinking, 
opposing order to disorder, life to death, before and after, repression 
and liberation, Per Hüttner develops Bergson’s idea that complexity and 
possibility are not just a pre-condition of creation, but exist as 
permanent truths. The artist reveals affinities between the French 
thinker and the ancient Chinese philosopher, Chuang Tzu, who says that 
our life has a boundary but there is no boundary to knowledge; to use 
what has a boundary and to pursue what is limitless is dangerous.

In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition, the artist will give 
a talk and also present a new publication entitled /The Imminent 
Interviews/ with texts and interviews by: /Cecilia Canziani, //Li 
Xiaofei and Wang Dan/

*>unknown*- Per Hüttner

Private view: 6pm18 Dec. 2010

Exhibition open: 19 Dec. 2010 - 16 Jan. 2011

Open Time: 10am-6pm (Tue to Sun)

Venue: Wuwei Creative Space, 1436 Jungong Rd, Building No.101,

Yangpu District, Shanghai (Near Xiangyin Road)

Exhibition Space: DCA-Solo Space

Artist: Per Hüttner

Artistic director: Shen Qi Bin

Curators: Li Xiaofei and Alessandra Sandrolini

Organizer: Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall

The artist will give a talk: /Butchering with a Remarkably Sharp Knife 
like in an Artistic Dance/

4pm - 5:30pm,18 Dec 2010.

Venue: DCA-Theater

Lecturer: Per Hüttner

Moderator: Li XiaoFei

*The Imminent Interviews***

Editor: Hanna Hannerz

Contains texts and interviews by: /Cecilia Canziani, //Li Xiaofei and 
Wang Dan/

/88 pages in Chinese and English, /ISBN: 978-91-978934-4-2


For further information and press images contact ///Li Xiaofei - 
xiaofeiart (at) gmail.com- or Alessandra Sandrolini - 
alessandra.sandrolini (at) gmail.com
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