"China/Avant-Garde" Exhibition
This exhibition took place in February 1989. It was first denied access by the government. Some of the artists decided to move the artist's villages to begin to make a "department art". The target audience of the artists was not public but rather, was other artists/painters among the circle of friends. Fang Lijun's works were shown during this exhibition. Due to different economic and political stretch, there were a lot of attention that was being drawn from this exhibition among the artists. The intention is to motivate movement of the society to reinforce a new structure of China. When the corruption happened, people started getting lost in direction of where to go or how to change the country. The China/Avant-Garde called people together to make a bigger change to fire up different movements that happened right after this exhibition
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