Incredible but true, Shanghai has one of the most extensive Art Déco landscapes in the world and hosts the largest number of Liberty style buildings in all of Asia. At the end of the ‘20s, the largest project in the style of the Belle Époque was conceived in Shanghai. It was known as The Greater Shanghai Plan - an audacious utopian plan, born of an ambitious ideal of giving an egalitarian and dignified life to all Chinese citizens while projecting Shanghai, the eternal city, into the future. It focused on the Northern part of the city which, at the start of the 1900s, was already a remarkable cosmopolitan melting pot, marked by intense contrasts between rich and poor. The staff of urbanists and architects of The Greater Shanghai Plan were, in fact, themselves a surprising mix of Americans, Germans and Chinese. The plan was inspired by the book Garden Cities of Tomorrow, published in 1902 by British expert Ebenezer Howard. The project was begun officially in 1931, but was abandoned in 1937 when war broke out. Of that “spirit of a new age”, there are very few but magnificent buildings left, that of the City Hall, for instance. A remnant - somewhat nostalgic, yet singular and fascinating - of a broken dream.
The Chinese artist transforms flowers, everyday objects and memories into paintings that blur the line between reality and imagination, inviting a slower, deeper way of seeing.
At Shanghai's Long Museum, Wallace Chan transforms titanium into monumental sculptures that merge myth, spirituality, and innovation, inviting visitors on a journey through matter and imagination.
A major retrospective at the Museum of Art Pudong explores more than fifty years of projects, ideas and visions by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect who reshaped contemporary architecture.
The Other Measure: When Nature Defies Classification
Six Chinese artists weave together maps, sound, flowers and memory in an immersive exhibition that invites us to experience the Earth beyond numbers, borders and categories.
