Usually, “fold” is a topic around single dimension or multiple dimensions, which can be visual, psychological, perceptual, civilized, temporal, spatial, cultural, known and unknown. Scientists make use of “fold”, the powerful gravitational force that warps the space, to explore the transcendence of cosmic space and time. Philosophers employ the metaphor of “fold” to express their doubts about the traditional methods to understand logic and endow the thought with a deeper and broader meaning.

Four artists are invited to the exhibition to explore “fold” through their abstract artworks. Their works bear the common aesthetic taste characterized by visual abstraction and intuitive superposition. Meanwhile, the works reflect independent and complete concept intention, expression method and constitution system of formal beauty of each artist. With the development of abstract art up to now, the infinite desire for and exploration of concept have determined the basis of art content, and the possibility of the sense of form has facilitated a more complete visual expression of the concept. “Fold” shows us in what form the abstract art exists when the boundaries dissolve in various forms of expression under the framework of contemporary spirits.

Deleuze once described the diversity of fold—“Not to restore the relationship among the elements in a space-time range, but to suppose a strange and rootless dimension, and then add things that can create their own spatiotemporal relationship.”

The exhibition of “Fold” is a discussion on the re-examination of abstract art and an opportunity to propose solutions. It provides new space for the extension of dimension, leading the repeated examinations following the art...