Hetong News Agency (Italy) reported that at 5:10 pm on June 11, 2019, four famous artists from China, including Deng Zhen, Fan Changjiang, Gong Jianhua, Liu Haofeng, etc., launched a unique performance with the theme of "Anachronisms" at the Armory Show venue of the 58th Venice Biennale in Italy, targeting at the ongoing Venice Biennale, fully expressing the artists' attitudes and views on European art and contemporary art, causing many artists to think fiercely and generating a wide social resonance. In response to the ongoing Venice Biennale, the artists fully expressed their attitudes and views on European art and contemporary art, causing many artists to think intensely and generating a wide range of social resonance.

      Artist Deng Zhen chose to perform his performance art piece "Anachronistic Visitor" under a large poster in the main Armory Show. He took off the summer clothes he was wearing and replaced them with winter clothes, including: long-sleeved T-shirt, turtleneck sweater, cotton overcoat, Lei Feng (cotton) hat, warm down pants, cotton pants, cotton socks, and big-headed leather shoes. Then walk back and forth in place, and try to wrap the coat as tightly as possible, from time to time huffing, rubbing hands, running and jumping. At this time, the Venice sun is blazing, the weather is very hot, the Venice Biennale is bustling with people, the exhibition ground is bustling with activity. People in short shorts, skirts fluttering, in and out of the artists to watch the performance, from time to time to lose laughter and surprise, or a clear understanding. Many foreign friends watched the artist's difficulties, specially come over to embrace, causing a warm onlookers.

         Artists Fan Changjiang, Gong Jianhua, and Liu Haofeng performed inside the Armory's main venue, in a performance of stark simplicity and powerful language. Each artist, with a white "Cui Jian hat" covering his or her entire face, stood for a few minutes in front of a nude female work of art in the exhibition. As the godfather of Chinese rock and roll, Cui Jian is an iconic figure in the fusion of Chinese and Western music, and a key participant in the Chinese cultural renaissance movement led by poet-artist Yu Xinqiao in the early 1990s.

          The so-called "anachronism", from the Harbin Normal University College of Fine Arts doctoral supervisor Professor Gong Jianhua, Shanghai Xiangmei art museum director, contemporary world renaissance advocate Liu Haofeng and so on, agreed that there are two meanings, the first is that in the context of the integration of global information, the cultures of various countries and nationalities are closely intertwined with each other, which has never happened in any other time in history. This is something that has never happened in any other era in history. The European Renaissance, since its inception in Italy, has set up humanism as the central value to get rid of the bondage of God, and then rose to the supremacy of individual reason, triggering the European Enlightenment, laying the foundation for the value and cognitive approach of modern politics and economy, society, culture and art, and becoming the center of the world's art with a history of six hundred years. However, in the 21st century, the trajectory of world art under this pattern is facing a major shift! The second layer of meaning is that the artist, in his own unique way, poses a direct conflict with the current exhibition scene. Artists wear cotton and winter clothes in summer, artists cover their eyes and faces in front of the exhibition works, it expresses certain disappointment and coldness inside, and expresses the desire of intolerance and reconstruction.

         According to artist Fan Changjiang, the theme of the Venice Biennale, "May you live in interesting times", is a good intention, but the real world is extremely hot. Only in Hong Kong, the crowd is enthusiastic and continues to heat up. Several artists who are participating in the Venice Biennale are using the theme of "Cold and Hot" as their performance art to remind people of the need to stay calm and maintain peace.

      Artist Liu Haofeng believes that postmodern philosophical trends have influenced and triggered postmodern art, deeply questioning the individual rationality established by the European Renaissance and Enlightenment. World War II led to the sacrifice of 40 million human beings, proving that individual rationality is not entirely reliable. The fetishization of individual reason is even more wrong. It has brought progress to the world and at the same time caused great disasters. The discovery of the "Uncertainty Principle" in physics has provided natural science support for postmodern art to question the traditional central value of modernism. The liberation of philosophical trends led to the corresponding liberation of art. The postmodern mobilization of "everything is unreliable" subverts and ridicules the traditional narrative and central value. Postmodern art theorists have issued a declaration that "the world is aesthetic". Existence is art. A shift in time and space can trigger a shift in artistic language. Art aesthetics began to lose its subject and entered the abyss of value nihilism; art forms entered the era of miniaturization and disorder; and art history entered the embarrassing era of not being able to be renewed. When Wittgenstein drilled philosophy into the bull's-eye of linguistic structure, it was actually a symptom of the exhaustion of Western philosophy. The logical thinking of human beings entered into a narrower and narrower gap, and the philosophy of human beings became more and more distant from the vastness of the natural universe.

         According to Prof. Gong, when the conclusion of the end of history and the death theory of Western philosophy come out one after another, indeed, the whole academic thinking of mankind needs a wider revival to achieve a deep reintegration of tradition and contemporaneity, religion and science, the individual and God, and mankind and the universe.

       With regard to this worldwide renaissance, Liu Haofeng believes that the Chinese culture of "unity of heaven and man", which has been consistent since ancient times, should be restored, so as to re-establish a close and logical relationship between the nihilistic subject, the art of miniaturization, and the natural universe. The culture wants to restore the individual's heavenly or logos cosmic rationality and lead human beings to re-establish the inner unity channel with the universe's great life. Therefore, this "anachronistic" performance art, first of all, expresses the artists' distinctive attitude towards the Venice Biennale and the whole world's contemporary mainstream art, that is, to call for a great transformation of art aesthetics and a great turnaround in art history, to build up individual cosmic rationality on the basis of personal rationality, and to re-establish a "unity of mind" with God. The intimate relationship of "unity of mind" with God should be re-established on the basis of personal rationality and then establish personal cosmic rationality.

       According to Deng Zhen, this year's Biennale has a great number of videos, with installations and sculptures being the absolute protagonists of the Biennale, and thematic art reflecting social realities and human conflicts remaining the most concerned direction of the Biennale. Impressive and powerful are the works from Chinese artists, Sun Yuan and Peng Yu's Dear, Hard to Contain and Liu Wei's Microworld, with clean and sharp language, full of tension and vitality, without losing the beauty, freshness and strangeness that art brings. There are also ground installations reflecting environmental protection and ecology in the French Pavilion and movable sculptures in the Russian Pavilion. There was not much in the way of photography, with an impressive selfie by Katayama, a disabled Japanese female artist. Painting was completely marginalized.

      Therefore, Deng Zhen also carries out the performance art with the subject "Pointing Brother" to show respect and praise to them. Deng Zhen believes that many people cannot understand contemporary art, especially performance art, and in many ways it is a problem of the audience's lack of basic professional knowledge. Contemporary art is not just about aesthetic systems and intuitive art; it has many transformative relationships that require systematic learning. Of course, the very best works are often the ones that transcend these dimensions to achieve a wide range of resonance, reflecting a universal value and based on the expression of common human emotions.

      It is reported that the Venice Biennale is an art festival with a history of hundreds of years and is one of the most important art events in Europe. It is known as one of the world's three major art exhibitions together with Documenta in Kassel, Germany, and the Sao Paulo Biennale in Brazil, and its seniority ranks first among the three major exhibitions, which is regarded as the Carnival of the art world.

      The 2019 Venice Biennale, titled "May You Live in Interesting Times," is curated by Ralph Rugoff, director of the Hayward Gallery in London, and features 83 exhibiting artists. In his curatorial essay, Rugoff hopes that "art will enable people to understand and think about the times in which we live."