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.
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.
The Dragon and the Lily: a solid relationship through the ages
Between the 17th and 18th centuries, the foundations were laid for the close diplomatic relations and the fruitful exchange of art and culture between China and France, which continue to this day. Around 200 extraordinary artefacts from the Palace Museum and the Castle of Versailles bear witness to the exchanges between the two countries.
As an artist and thinker, Liu Ding dives into the depths of conceptual art and works around the progress of contemporary art from a historical perspective. His artistic practice engages in meaningful dialogues with individuals and the broader society in which we live.