EMERGING ARTISTS ASIA
Trend: Generational grouping of art
The New Museum in New York chooses 8 artists from Asia and a total of 50 globally, to describe the next generation of emerging artists (born after 1976) as part of its new signature triennial exhibition “the Generational” which runs til 14 June 2009.
Tala Madani Spraying Stripes
About the exhibition
For “Younger Than Jesus,” the first edition of “The Generational,” fifty artists from twenty-five countries will be presented.
Known to demographers and marketers as the Millennials, Generation Y, iGeneration, and Generation Me, this age group has yet to be described in any way beyond their habits of consumption. “Younger Than Jesus” will begin to examine the visual culture this generation has created to date.
First major international museum exhibition for 80s artists
Consistent with the New Museum’s thirty-year mission to present new art and new ideas, “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus” will be the first major international museum exhibition devoted exclusively to the generation born around 1980, tapping into the different perspectives prescribing the future of global culture.
Elad Lassry untitled film
Huge demographic
In the United States, this demographic group is the largest generation to emerge since the Baby Boomers, while in India half the population is less than twenty-five years old; the sheer size of this generation ensures its worldwide influence.
By bringing together a wide variety of artists and contextualizing their different approaches, “Younger Than Jesus” will capture the signals of an imminent change, identify stylistic trends that are emerging among a diverse group of creators, and provide the general public with a first in-depth look at how the next generation conceives of our world.
Chu Yun Love - a project created for Siemens
Artists from Asia
China: Chu Yun, Cao Fei, Liu Chang
India: Shilpa Gupta
Israel: Elad Lassry
Iran: Tala Madani
Kazakhstan: Alexander Ugay
Turkey: Ahmet Ogut
Publications
For those who can’t make it to the show at the Bowery, the New Museum’s publications are the next best thing.
Buy Younger Than Jesus Directory
Biographical information and images from the over 500 artists who were submitted for consideration for the exhibition by the global network of informants will be included in the publication Younger Than Jesus: The Artist Directory, co-published by the New Museum and Phaidon. The publication will serve as an informal census of the artists from this generation, and will expand the exhibition by adding an additional platform.
The exhibition catalogue, co-published by the New Museum and Steidl, will include reproductions of the work of the fifty artists chosen for the exhibition, as well as original essays by the exhibition curators and an anthology of articles by a diverse group of writers including philosophers, sociologists, journalists, activists, and marketing and technology experts. It is intended to compose a complex picture of the art and preoccupations that animate the work of this emerging generation.
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