| Human society has slowly ended the longest historical stage of the primitive and agrarianage, and has enter the age of high speed developing industrial and post industrial, in verysingle historical stage, human being have created almost inestimable amount of ark works,one can not count the social value and significance of these art works have been in the historyof the progressing of human society.In the Shanghai World’s fair on2010, Chinese artist Xu Bing has exhibited theinstallation art piece <Phoenix>, that’s created with in two years, this is an art work has giventhe significance for the philosophy symbolic meaning of rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, isextremely meaningful to the current situation of the development of the China society.Korean artist Nam June Paik’s installation art work <The more the better> that is createdfor the Seoul Olympic in1988, this art work is at the level of the world entering the digitaltime, using1003actual object of public media culture—a Babel tower like object made byradio tube televisions, playing different digital art works on all1003screen.For two installation art works with different material, the social value orientation arevery different.<Phoenix>, from the point of view of the nation and culture of the regions anddevotes the question for the wishes of the nation development.<The more the better>, giventhe attention for the world from the point of view of the global integration digital age. Madeus think of the Babel tower that is the symbolic for the human spirit of time that ended theStone age, and the Eiffel tower, the symbolic of the industrial civilization. The Babel tower,the Eiffel tower and The more the better, these three tower shaped art work have put togetherthe chain of the development to the human history, they are the symbolic art work for thethree big stage of the development of human culture.Where we are now is the digital age, with the different form of the diversification of thepublic media culture, the art works of the digital age have been made, slowly cut out theboundary of the art of the nations and regions, same with all culture phenomenon, has havethe trend of development of the Global integration, made us think all questions such as thelink between time and art works, the time spirit of the contemporary art, and the art work’suniversal meaning of the development of the human society. |
