"L'Asie maintenant", Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet, October 6-January 6 2020
On the occasion of ASIA NOW 2019, the Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet is organizing a contemporary art exhibition, from October 16 to January 6, 2020. This exhibition presents the museum's recent acquisitions, and highlights the diversity of contemporary Asian art.
Read More''Qiu Zhijie. Mappa Mundi", UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, January 19th -May 5th, 2019
Nearly a decade ago, in the catalogues for his exhibitions, Qiu Zhijie began to plot out intricate maps of the relationships among his various artworks. It was from this synthesis of research, writing, imagination, and action that the Mapping the World Project was born. In the hundreds of maps that have followed, the ink and brushwork of landscape painting outlines a coordinate system which condenses ideas, individuals, objects, incidents, and situations, weaving them together and offering a possibility for understanding them in relation to each other.
Read More"In the Volcano with Cai Guo-Qiang", National Archaeological Museum, Naples, February 23th-May 20th, 2019
In the Volcano with Cai Guo Qiang: by inventing gunpowder painting, the artist has created one of the most singular body of works, unsetting all artistic media and transforming every painting into a performance. It turns his work review one of the fundamental dialectics of the modernity: that of destruction and creation.
Read More"Lee Ufan. Inhabiting time", Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, February 27th-September 30th, 2019
Lee Ufan's works are conceived as living experiences, bridging the worlds of philosophy and the visual arts. His sculptures play on our notion of space, while his paintings interact with time. Ufan strives endlessly to master infinity and to 'inhabiting time'.
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