{"id":2570,"date":"2011-07-12T10:52:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T16:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2011-07-12T10:52:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T16:52:21","slug":"museum-adds-new-installation-to-summer-of-china-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2011\/07\/museum-adds-new-installation-to-summer-of-china-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum adds new installation to Summer of CHINA lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chinese Contemporary Warriors Stand in Formation at the Milwaukee Art Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Milwaukee, Wis. \u2013 July 12, 2011<\/strong> \u2013 The Milwaukee Art Museum is proud to present the installation <em>Chinese Contemporary Warriors<\/em> by world-renowned contemporary artist Yue Minjun, in conjunction with its <em><a title=\"Summer of CHINA homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mam.org\/china\" target=\"_blank\">Summer of CHINA<\/a><\/em> series of exhibitions. This latest addition to the ambitious <em>CHINA<\/em> lineup will be on view through December 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe work of Yue Minjun invites exploration into the relationship between contemporary art and current issues in modern Chinese society,\u201d said Brady Roberts, chief curator of the Milwaukee Art Museum. \u201cYue provides another perspective to what currently comprises the <em>Summer of CHINA<\/em> experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yue Minjun, a leading contemporary artist based in Beijing, China, is best known for his self-portrait paintings. Yue casts himself in a variety of large-scale compositions, and always with a grotesquely wide-mouthed, laughing face. Referencing the utopian propaganda of earlier Chinese Social realist paintings, his work creates allegories critical of the Chinese government in works that are humorously laced with cynicism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChinese Contemporary Warriors is a sculptural installation that continues in the same manner of satire,\u201d said Roberts. \u201cMindlessly happy in their uniformity, the compliant citizens of this absurd army recall the famed terra-cotta warriors from Xian. Rather than the serious visages of the warriors, however, these figures convey \u2018see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Chinese Contemporary Warriors<\/em> is currently on display in the Museum\u2019s Contemporary Galleries on the Main Level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s far-reaching holdings include more than 25,000 works spanning antiquity to the present day. With a history dating back to 1888, the Museum houses a collection with strengths in 19th- and 20th-century American and European art, contemporary art, American decorative arts, and folk and self-taught art. The Museum includes the Santiago Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion, named by Time magazine as \u201cBest Design of 2001.\u201d For more information, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mam.org\/\">www.mam.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Contemporary Warriors Stand in Formation at the Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee, Wis. \u2013 July 12, 2011 \u2013 The Milwaukee Art Museum is proud to present the installation Chinese Contemporary Warriors by world-renowned contemporary artist Yue Minjun, in conjunction with its Summer of CHINA series of exhibitions. This latest addition to the ambitious CHINA lineup <a href=\"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2011\/07\/museum-adds-new-installation-to-summer-of-china-lineup\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Museum adds new installation to Summer of CHINA lineup<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2572,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions\/2572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}