At the beginning of the twentieth century, artists moved away from the reproductive art of depicting facts and began to create non-figurative art. The Western tradition of realistic painting began to falter and artistic expression became increasingly abstract, starting with Cubism, and a plethora of schools of art and abstract styles emerged, changing the viewing experience and bringing new horizons to life.
The exhibition begins with Rhymes of Beijing Opera, created in 1950 by Wu Dayu, a representative figure of modern Chinese abstract painting, and attempts to provide an opportunity for viewers to appreciate artworks with abstraction from different periods, countries, genres and forms, with a view to bringing about multiple imaginative possibilities, through cases spanning more than 70 years of creation since the 1950s to date. In these works, the interrelationship of elements such as line, shape, space and colour is continuously explored by the artists, the use of materials is diversified, and visual and psychological effects, colour and emotional responses are repeatedly investigated. New aesthetic explorations and new ideas arising from different periods are presented in the exhibition one by one, like a visual landscape.
When we go back even further in the history of Western art, Cézanne began to produce works of an abstract nature as early as the 19th century, as he says: "Here there is no depiction of light and darkness, but only a mere relationship of tones. When they are correctly represented, harmonious forms are established autonomously, and the more varied they are, the more pleasing they are to the eye."
List of artists
Listed in alphabetical order by artist's last name
A
荒川修作 Shusaku Arakawa
约翰·阿穆雷德 John Armleder
哈罗德·安卡特 Harold Ancart
B
恩里科·巴赫 Enrico Bach
丹尼尔·布伦 Daniel Buren
马克·布拉德福德 Mark Bradford
卡罗尔·波维 Carol Bove
C
郑相和 Chung Sang-Hwa
蔡国强 Cai Guoqiang
约翰·张伯伦 John Chamberlain
埃德·克拉克 Ed Clark
托尼·克拉格 Tony Cragg
劳伦斯·卡罗尔 Lawrence Carroll
陈彧君 Chen Yujun
瓦伦丁·卡伦 Valentin Carron
玛丽·阔思 Mary Corse
D
丁雄泉 Ding Xiongquan（Walasse Ting)
丁乙 Ding Yi
涂鸦先生Mr.Doodle
E
榎倉康二 Koji Enokura
F
乌尔斯·费舍尔 Urs Fischer
G
高伟刚 Gao Weigang
马克·格罗蒂扬 Mark Grotjahn
瑞安·甘德 Ryan Gander
关小 Guan Xiao
詹妮弗·圭迪 Jennifer Guidi
H
汉斯·哈同 Hans Hartung
河钟贤 Ha Chong-hyun
萧勤 Hsiao Chin (Xiao Qin)
黄宇兴 Huang Yuxing
耶普·海因 Jeppe Hein
达米安·赫斯特 Damien Hirst
胡晓媛 Hu Xiaoyuan
吉姆·霍格斯 Jim Hodges
I
罗伯特·欧文 Robert Irwin
K
河口洋一郎 Yoichiro Kawaguchi
金昌永 Kim Chang-Young
安尼施·卡普尔 Anish Kapoor
小牟田悠介 Yusuke Komuta
雅各布·凯斯赛 Jacob Kassay
小清水渐 Susumu Koshimizu
L
林寿宇 Richard Lin（Lin Show-yu)
玛利亚·拉斯尼格 Maria Lassnig
梁远苇 Liang Yuanwei
吕振光 Lui Chun Kwong
吉姆·兰比 Jim Lambie
刘建华 Liu Jianhua
刘诗园 Liu Shiyuan
李姝睿 Li Shurui
刘文涛 Liu Wentao
M
乔治·马修 Georges Mathieu
琼·米切尔 Joan Mitchell
元永定正 Sadamasa Motonaga
布莱斯·马登 Brice Marden
松谷武判 Takesada Matsutani
孟禄丁 Meng Luding
弗朗索瓦·莫尔莱 François Morellet
比亚翠兹·米拉塞斯 Beatriz Milhazes
森万里子 Mariko Mori
伊伯翰姆·马哈马 Ibrahim Mahama
前川强 Tsuyoshi Maekaw
马秋莎 Ma Qiusha
安妮·莫里斯 Annie Morris
N
露易丝·尼维尔森 Louise Nevelson
中西夏之 Natsuyuki Nakanishi
名和晃平 Kohei Nawa
O
加布里埃尔·奥罗斯科 Gabriel Orozco
劳拉·欧文斯 Laura Owens
P
朴栖甫 Park Seo-Bo
亚当·彭德尔顿 Adam Pendleton
Q
曲丰国 Qu Fengguo
邱志杰 Qiu Zhijie
R.H. 奎特曼 R.H. Quaytman
R
托马斯·鲁夫 Thomas Ruff
斯特林·鲁比 Sterling Ruby
布里奇特·路易斯·赖利 Bridget Louise Riley
托比亚斯·雷贝格 Tobias Rehberger
S
皮埃尔·苏拉吉 Pierre Soulages
菅木志雄 Kishio Suga
关根美夫 Yoshio Sekine
申凡 Shen Fan
千住博 Hiroshi Senju
嶋本昭三 Shozo Shimamoto
白发一雄 Kazuo Shiraga
帕特·斯蒂尔 Pat Steir
宋冬 Song Dong
鲁道夫·斯汀格尔 Rudolf Stingel
萨拉·斯茨 Sarah Sze
艾芙瑞・辛格 Avery Singer
玛丽娜·佩雷斯·西芒 Marina Perez Simão
T
田中敦子 Atsuko Tanaka
里克力·提拉瓦尼 Rirkrit Tiravanija
高畠依子 Yoriko Takabatake
屠宏涛 Tu Hongtao
V
维克托·瓦萨雷里 Victor Vasarely
里奥‧维拉瑞尔 Leo Villareal
W
吴大羽 Wu Dayu
王劼音Wang Jieyin
王功新 Wang Gongxin
王光乐 Wang Guangle
王郁洋 Wang Yuyang
玛丽·威瑟福德 Mary Weatherford
王俊杰 Matthew Wong
斯坦利·惠特尼 Stanley Whitney
万杨 Wan Yang
X
许江 Xu Jiang
徐震 Xu Zhen
徐渠 Xu Qu
谢墨凛 Xie Molin
Y
袁运生 Yuan Yunsheng
横山裕一 Yuichi Yokoyama
杨心广 Yang Xinguang
尹秀珍 Yin Xiuzhen
Z
赵无极 Zhao Wuji(Zao Wou-Ki)
朱德群 Zhu Dequn
张义 Zhang Yi (Cheung Yee)
赵要 Zhao Yao
张恩利 Zhang Enli
臧坤坤 Zang Kunkun
张子飘 Zhang Zipiao
