Programme: Tue - Sat 11 am - 6 pm | Sun - Mon closed
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Location: Lisson Gallery
Adresse: 4/F, Building D7, Yard 3 Jinhang East Road
It is not the first time that Christopher Le Brun, one of the leading British painters celebrated internationally since the 1980s, has entered the contemporary art scene in China. He had already been there in 2019 with an exhibition organized by the Lisson Gallery in Shanghai and again in 2021 with two interventions, at the Red Brick Art Museum and at the MoCAUP. An artist who ranges from figurative to abstract, who fluently engages in various disciplines, painting, sculpture and printing, Le Brun is also a public figure who has held prestigious positions, for example he was president of the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 2011 to 2019. In his new solo exhibition in Beijing he presents Phases of the Moon, a multi-panel painting that reveals the cyclical nature of his practice with a lunar motif that dates back to one of his first oil paintings and Lontano, a triptych that shares the title with a piece by the composer Gyorgy Ligeti written in 1967, which embodies the artist's belief that painting should primarily have a sensual and emotional appeal.
Walls of light and stones that do not divide with Scully
Throughout his 50-year artistic career, Scully has practiced a form of abstraction that aims to reshape the genre. "I'm trying to transform stone into light - said the artist describing her work - to create a wall that isn't a brutal divider" between reality and fiction.
The exhibition explores the themes of will, hope, memory, and imagination. Through the investigation of complex meanings of dreams, fifteen individual artists and/or art collectives around the world are invited to delve into the exploration of subjectivity and empowerment.
The great musical and dance show "Confucius" tells about the journey of the great philosopher to the ancient Chinese states. In 497 BC Confucius left the state of Lu, beginning his 14-year journey to other states to promote his philosophical ideas.
Thompson highlights the connective threads of control, combination, and constraint. The artist often applies rigid principles to the creation of his work, using rule-based systems as generative tools to uncover and reframe the subjectivity of creative decisions.