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| Exhibition |
| LIU ZHONG - THE PRISE OF NATURE |
| Italy - Venice |
| 04/06/2009 - 15/09/2009 |
"Art gallery 795"
Fondamenta San Biagio 795
Isola della Giudecca
"Palazzo Querin"
calle lunga San Barnaba> |
| On 4th June at 10,00 at the Giudecca Gallery and at 12,00 in Palazzo Querini in calle San Barnaba it will take place the opening of Liu Zhong solo exhibition "Liu Zhong Praise of Nature" curated by Vincenzo Sanfo. It is one of the collateral exhibitions of Venice Biennale.
The exhibition icludes recent works about the theme of animal world suggested by the famous Histoire naturelle by Buffon illustrated by Picasso during the Thirty's.
Liu Zhong is an artist who dedicated a big part of his research to animal world viewed through a particular perspective. It is a theme that many famous artists have in common.
With these works Liu Zhong wants to emphasize the need of a different human approach towards nature, especially towards animal world, which nowadays is a very important theme in China.
In attachment a part of catalogue text :
It is impossible to talk about Liu Zhong's work and his way of being an artist without analyzing from which culture and from which inspiration his research was born.
As a matter of fact, if we considerate only one idea of Contemporary Art, the result would be a reductive point of view on his work. Otherwise, if we set him in the real essence of research, then we would appreciate clearly his way of being so contemporary, and a new point of view will be opened to us.
The fact that the nature has the property of being a central theme in the Chinese painting tradition is undeniable, especially subjects taken from the animal and vegetable kingdoms.
Many artists from the ancient times to the contemporary painting, most of all in Chinese painting (even if a big part of it, almost hitting off the West, voted itself to the representation of sex and similar basic themes, or to the representation of its tradition revisited with a POP perspective)focused their reflections and their poetics on this theme.
Thankfully, beside this way of producing art, they still exist and resist figure like Liu Zhong that have an original poetics, which are able to support an artistic vision that pursues its own direction, above the style and the way of the moment.
Liu Zhong belongs to this artistic "côté", the one I think it is the most genuine and spontaneous, and most of all he remains very close to his own poetics root, belonging to the nature kingdom and to a real tale that was born from an inner relation with the world where we live, and with a wonderful and never ending creation.
This works of art by Liu Zhong are faithful to a thousand-year painting tradition, they surprise us because of their tones, their language, and sometimes because of their curiosity in composition. They show us a way of being modern that respects the trade of the artist, a trade that is not only made of images, but also by ideas that want to transport us and the artist as well to a social contest in which we are witness and intermediary to the poetics of life.
Tuesday/Sunday 10.00- 18.00
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