Options

                                                                                                                                                                             Gu Zhenqing

   An option can be the artist’s own proactive decision or proactive innovation in visual form. It can also be the artist’s personal breakthrough, or a conceptual path that the artist takes anew. The quest to open new space for significance in terms of the self and visual form is an essential means for the artist to form conceptual ideas. The option begins the process of an artist gradually extracting and refining the essential properties of his or her own complex image production. Under the conditions of a society with a global perspective, young artists He Xiangyu, Gao Lei and Gao Weigang exist, accumulate experience and reflect on concepts within options. They may only be creating a series of ruins from the dusk of contemporary art, but their positive, bodily practices provide new possibilities for the occurrence of new art.