Canberra, Australia.- The National Museum of Australia is proud to be the exclusive Australian venue for “A New Horizon”, on view through January 29th 2012. “A New Horizon” is a powerful and important exhibition of contemporary Chinese art from the National Art Museum of China. The exhibition features more than 70 paintings, sculptures and new media installations created since the foundation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Some of China’s leading contemporary artists are represented, including Qian Songyan, Shen Jiawei and Liu Xiaodong, with works divided into three sections. the first, ‘New China (1949–1977)’ explores art created after the foundation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Chinese artists embraced the construction of New China. They took Mao’s dictum, ‘Serving the people, serving the politics’ as their motto, and their works reveal proud and happy workers and farmers.