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.
Appointment with the Number 1 Art Fair in China: Guardian Fine Art Asia 2024
An unmissable event for collectors and art lovers, the Guardian Fine Art Asia (GFAA) has carved out an authoritative space for itself in the field of culture and art. Galleries and antique dealers from all over the world meet in Beijing for the 11th edition of the fair.
On display are 74 series of works created by Qi Baishi. Among these, a 25-page album entitled Flower Drawings found in the Academy's archives, after having been buried in dust for decades, will be shown for the first time.
“Luc Tuymans: The Past” will be one of the most significant investigations of his work and his first comprehensive presentation in China. With around 80 works that trace his artistic journey, the exhibition tells how Tuymans explores the unsteady power that images wield to shape the present and give form to the past.