Poetry goes no further than language revisits a defining moment in mid-1980s China, when a group of artists began to question existing ideas about art.
Among them were the Beijing collective New Measurement Group and Shanghai-based artist Qian Weikang. Dissatisfied with the mainstream visual trends of expression and symbolism, they turned instead to conceptualism, using systems of measurement, process and chance as their artistic material.
Active for only a short time, their experiments circulated among small networks of artists and critics before many of the works were dispersed, dismantled or destroyed.
Buxton Contemporary
Corner Southbank Boulevard & Dodds Street
Southbank VIC 3006
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Opening Hours
11am-5pm, Tuesday-Saturday.
Closed Sunday and Monday.
Entry is free.
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