Yang Fudong's work represents a turning point in contemporary artistic production in China. His first film, An Estranged Paradise, which premiered at Documenta in Kassel in 2002, showcased a new narrative and visual sensibility, imbued with a contemporary aesthetic formed by multiple registers. His monumental cycle Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest which was completed over the next five years, poetically rendered the spirit of her generation, the kids born in the mid-1980s. Subsequent projects have broadened her cinematic vision in both directions of space and time: his films are installations that contain traces of their own making. For his most comprehensive institutional exhibition to date and its premiere in Beijing, Yang Fudong presents the first installment of his Library Film Project, a research process that aims to create a film that can contain a complex reality, both real and constructed. Inspired by his childhood in the rural Eastern suburbs of Beijing, this chapter weaves together elements of the past and present, public and personal.
The portrait sculptures of Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.
Miguel Ángel Payano Jr. has developed a unique artistic language around what he calls “heavy collages,” where sculptural elements and readymade objects populate and protrude from canvases that deftly portray individuals and landscapes.
Zhao Gang delves into the fluidity of individual identities, the clash of cultures, and the intricate interplay of fragmented historical events. The exhibition at Lisson Gallery features a new series of paintings by the artist who now lives and works between Beijing and New York.
Tomás Saraceno: Art and Science come together to imagine New Future Scenarios
For Tomás Saraceno the kingdom of artists is not the museum or a gallery, but the world itself. The artist questions the possibilities of imagining a future collaboratively, where principles of collective care and hope prevail.