Cc Foundation & Art Center officially launched the heavy-duty project "The Sun Also Rises" on December 16, 2017, which was based on narrative clues and explores the "current nature" and "sociality" of contemporary art. The exhibition invited visitors to participate in well-known art talk shows Ask David's live recording, the registered audiences had an exclusive preview rights as a super VIP. Through network dialogue, dance, theater performance, installation, video, painting and other ways, the project aimed to completely break down the barriers between art and life, activate the social value of art, so that works of art in a more dynamic and interactive way to present and spread.

All of the works in this exhibition were from the personal collection of Mr. David  Chau , founder of the Cc Foundation, and the theme of the exhibition is from the American novelist Hemingway's novel of the same name, "The Sun Also Rises". The characters in the works experience complex and contradictory psychological changes, the great changes in the social environment and the fragmentation of the original values, which make people feel confused, depressed and miserable. allIn the broken, everything is being rebuilt, the times are still moving forward. As the Bible old Testament mission says: "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose."

China today is undergoing social, economic and cultural changes similar to those of the United States in the early 1920s: consumerism and business civilization brought about by a rapidly growing economy are hitting traditional social values. The contradiction between hedonism and the value orientation of the original moderation forms the cultural paradox of the present society. When the planned economy is replaced by the commodity economy, and the single value system is struck by the multiple values, people tend to have a sense of confusion and emptiness. This spiritual emptiness is one of the most common social diseases in the process of modern civilization。 However, although the great social transformation makes people doubt their beliefs, be confused about reality, and feel shaken by their own value orientation, this does not stop people from pursuing freedom, fairness, individual liberation and personality independence.

Both Western literary creators and Chinese contemporary artists are interested in the critical state of things when balance is broken. The exhibition featured important videos, installations, photography and paintings of seven artists born in the 1970s to the 1980s, including Chen Xiaoyun, Bai Shuangquan, Huang Ran, Huang Yuxing, Liu Ren, Zhao Yao, and Zheng Huan, most of the works were first appearance in the art agency. Through philosophical meditation on the state of human beings at the critical point of the environment, the seven artists extended to the discussion of important propositions such as love, death and rebirth in human nature.

"Cc" stands for 'Culture & Community', said Mr. David Chau, founder of the Cc Foundation & Art Center. We are working hard and truly to bring art to the masses. How to spread good art in a more popular rather than elitist way is something the Cc Foundation has been thinking about and practicing. I set up the Cc Foundation to do only four things: first, to provide a platform for the display and promotion of Chinese and Western contemporary art; second, dig for outstanding exhibitions that have been forgotten by history; the third is to support young artists and nurture a new force in the art world; and the fourth is to make art embrace the masses and make them embrace art better. The fourth of these is the most important thing, and I want to use social media platforms to promote art and bring it to the masses. ”