Legal Identity Struggle And National Image Remolding

1989 marks the 40 th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.At the same time,the “Chinese Modern Art Exhibition” held at the National Art Museum of China has also become the iconic exhibition of Chinese contemporary art that wandered between “parks” and “palace” and moved towards formality since the reform and opening up in 1978.The occurrence of a series of dramatic events during the exhibition brought the impulse and ideals of Chinese contemporary art to a climax in the 1980 s,and the "curatorial history" of Chinese contemporary art also kicked off.With the great changes of the era of China's reform and opening up,Chinese contemporary art and curatorial practice have embarked on a new journey of exploration.In the 30-year struggle,Chinese contemporary art make persistent efforts,with achievements and problems coexisting.Through exhibition practice,curatorial history of Chinese contemporary art has gradually formed and curatorial form has initially constructed and perfected as well.From the perspective of curatorial practice,this article combines the different elements of economic and cultural policies,art history and art criticism,and art ecology and systems,and uses the development of curatorial development of contemporary Chinese art(1989-2019)as sample materials for analysing of developmental clues.The concept of the curatorial history of Chinese contemporary art has been identified and the three development stages of curatorial form(initiation,construction and perfection period)has been divided,and development of the curatorial history of Chinese contemporary art has been clarified such as the curatorial mechanism and curatorial methodology and the basic context and framework of important exhibition phenomena.At the same time,analysing the curatorial performance of Chinese contemporary art,and makes a historical judgment that curatorial exhibition is going to the third pole.The years have passed,and the original intention has not changed.In the collection and sorting of curatorial cases over the past 30 years,I concluded that curatorial practice is a method that shoulders the responsibility of contemporary art self-expression and self-expression in the development of internal laws.In external links,on the one hand,it serves as a means for contemporary art to fight for the legitimacy of status and the official game;on the other hand,it has also become an important method and strategy for the national cultural strategy to absorb the outstanding achievements of contemporary art and remold the national cultural image of China in the new era.I hope my research and my considerations and suggestions on the development direction of Chinese contemporary art curation can help readers better understand the history of curatorial art in contemporary Chinese art.Through the analysis of countermeasure exhibition forms,they can understand what kind of face and posture that Chinese contemporary art as Chinese contemporary culture should rely on to establish the cultural confidence of a big country.