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.
A journey from William Morris to Charles Rennie Mackintosh to discover the wonderful decorations of fabrics and objects of the Arts and Crafts movement.
The Masters of the Xin'an School of Painting on display at the National Museum of Art
In continuity with the exploration of the theme linked to art and ink in Chinese calligraphy, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Chinese National Art Museum an exhibition is set up where it is possible to admire a selection of 100 masterpieces of the famous School of Xin'an.
“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.
The avant-garde of photography in China in Mo Yi's shots
It is the first major museum study of the Chinese artist Mo Yi. Flaneur, outsider and self-taught photographer. Mo Yi's images from the streets of Tianjin are iconic for their ability to capture the energy and melancholy of the social fabric of China in the second half of the 20th century.