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.
The twentieth century was a crucial period in the development of Chinese art. This exhibition at CAFA features over 200 works of art from modern Chinese art, arranged chronologically into three sections: 1900-1949, 1950-1976 and 1977-2000, presenting the development of plastic arts over the century.
The 19 artworks on display span three decades of Viallat's career, offering a comprehensive view of his long and tireless exploration of materials and pigments.
An exhibition that invites us to reflect on the intervention and transformation of the Earth's ecological and climatic systems by humans. The works on display bring together perspectives from agriculture, hydraulic engineering and climate control, proposing different forms of perception and imagination.
The Landscape to make Peace with the World and with Oneself
The profound connection between the fragility of the individual and the eternal rhythms of the natural world is at the heart of the exhibition. The selected works evoke landscapes, both real and imagined, that serve as places of reconciliation, renewal and contemplation in the midst of personal and collective turmoil.
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