Four years after exhibiting his Tahchi Series sculptures in Beijing, international artist Ju Ming will reveal his Living World Series exhibition at the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) in Beijing on July 19.

The exhibition will be the first large-scale solo showcase of the Living World Series in Beijing. It will feature the works that Ju Ming has been developing since the 1980s encompassing the major representative opuses from the entire series and representing in fullness the evolution of this remarkable corpus. Living World Series-Imprisonment, the maestro's latest creation, will also be publicly unveiled for the first time at this event.

Living World Series-Swimming

Living World Series-Imprisonment is an extension of Ju Ming's evolving aesthetics and artistic philosophy. It is a set of three sculptures that symbolizes three axes of life philosophy—imprisoning others, being imprisoned by others, and self-imprisonment. Here, Ju Ming presents a new creative perspective as he breaks out of form-based thinking and turns towards the exploration of issues that people face within. Through this opus, Ju Ming is unfolding his ruminations on the philosophical issue of 'choice,' consciously demonstrating that one's value as a person is rooted in one's very self.

After working continuously for more than 30 years on his Living World Series, Ju Ming will be showcasing a total of 150 Living World sculptures in Halls 3, 5, 7 and 9 of NAMOC from July 19 onwards.

?Living World Series-Imprisonment

"My artist career is like the growth of a tree," Ju Ming said. "The Nativist Series constitutes its roots, the Tachi Series is its trunk and branches, and the Living World Series is its flowers and fruits."

The exhibition will be more than just an overall, root-tracing retrospective on the Living World Series. It will be a comprehensive delineation of the developmental trajectory and underlying conceptual threads of this emblematic corpus created by Ju Ming.

Venue: Halls 3,5,7 and 9, level 1, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

Add: 1 Wusi Dajie, East District, Beijing

Duration: 2010/7/19-2010/8/13

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