This summer Hanart TZ Gallery is proud to play host to two special exhibitions by emerging curators whose outstanding curatorial project proposals were selected by the new “ECP: Stars Emerging Curator Project”. Co-organized by Hangzhou Central Art Museum, China Academy of Art, and China Resources Mixc Lifestyle, the ECP-Star Curatorial Program aims to discover and support young curators and artists who demonstrate a highly innovative spirit and unique vision. In July Hanart presented the first project of the series. The second winning project is The Theater of Mimicry, co-curated by Dan YANG and Celine Xi CHEN, set to open at Hanart TZ Gallery on 10 August.

The Theater of Mimicry brings together nine artists/artist groups who, working within the three main thematic contexts of “environmental mimicry”, “cultural mimicry” and “digital mimicry,” together construct a complex, interwoven mimetic world, inviting the audience in to engage with a multi-layered sensory and ideological experiential field. Through this field, the exhibition aims to reveal the complex interweaving and dynamic equilibrium between the real and the virtual, the natural and the artificial, and the private and the public that exist within contemporary society; and in so doing to inspire each viewer to re-examine their individual experience in the world so as to discover deeper truths hidden behind mimicry and appearances.

The opening reception of The Theater of Mimicry will take place at Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, on Saturday, August 10th from 2 to 6 pm, in the presence of the curators, participating artists, and special guest Wang Yan, Director of the Central Art Museum of China and professor at the China Academy of Art, who will engage in conversation and interaction with the audience.

The exhibition runs through 31st August.