In Rome a dialogue between the Chinese artists and the Masters of the GNAMC collection, from Balla to Cattelan – Rome – Arte.it

Roma – In a serene “Sunday” by Cattelan, the great masters of the century, cut on the bronze by the Chinese artist Kei, observe the shots of bullets fired on two golden steel panels 24 carat from weapons of different caliber.
From the work of the Paduan artist, one of the last inputs in the collection of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome (titled Sunday) The view runs, in another room of the gallery in Viale Delle Fine Arts, to the World Map according to Feng Yuan. In the footsteps of Alighiero Boetti, the Chinese artist made a large card (248 x 320 cm) with ink and color on paper, where he placed a representative face in accordance with each country. For Italy there are, reassuring, the faces of Mattarella and Pope Francis.
Waiting to fly to Catania, where for the first time in Sicily in Sicily, some masterpieces of the GNAMC made between the 1980s and 1990s, Will Dialog with Palazzo Valle, headquarters of the Puglisi Cosentino Foundation, the institution aimed by Renata Cristina Mazzantini to the East.
The result of this dialogue, the exhibition “2025 East and West: International Dialogue Exhibition – From Shanghai to Rome”Edited by Gabriele Simongini and Zhang Xiaoling, organized by the Ministry of Culture, the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, by the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts and the Shanghai Artists Association and made by Zhong Art International, brings the capital over the capital.

Maurizio Cattelan, Sunday 2024, 2 golden steel panels 24 carat hit with weapons of different calibers, two elements 135.6 x 135.6 x 3.8 cm, Rome, National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art

The Fulcrum of the Route is The Comparary Between the Chinese Artists of Shanghai and the Historical Collection of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, With Works Signed by Great Italian Artists of the Twentieth Century Affreciated in China and GenaaTe, Bya -Gieaxe, Bya -Gayed, Bya -Ballage, Bya -Ballute’s ByaSaAred, Bya -Gayed, Bya -Ballute’s Gieaxe, ByaSaMe Ballute, ByaSaa. To Umberto Boccioni, from Amedeo Modigliani to Carlo Carrà, from Giorgio de Chirico to Alberto Burri.

Until September 14, these Masters will be at the center of an excursus dedicated to an entire century describing many different visions (from futurism to a suspension of postmethophysical matrix, from the informal to the school in Piazza del Poorthemo and Poorpoan, the Poorho and Poor. Colleagues Such as Maurizio Cattelan and Rudolf Stingel, or Emerging Like Daniela de Lorenzo, Alessandro Piegiamor, Emanuele Becheri. Davide Rivalta.
In the fifty -fifty birthday from the start of diplomatic relations between Italy and China, the exhibition is an opportunity to discover the works of the artists related to Shanghai who give us to cross a world between two borders. “The first – explains Gabriele Simongini, curator of the exhibition together with Zhang Xiaoling – is tradition, the second is a projection in the future, a mirror of a country that has made an impressive economic and technological growth over the years. In this territory, in this territory, so also be pushed for the painting of painting. exceed the challenges of the present, both formally and thematically, with new visionary scenarios.

Carlo Carrà, Boy on Horback, 1936, Oil on Canvas, 90 x 70 cm, Rome, National and Contemporary National Gallery of Art

Through the three thematic cores in which it develops – “Reflexes of Space Time”” “Expansion of thinking”” “Generation of the imagination” – The exhibition proposes a number of historical perspectives, media transformations and contemporary perceptions, building a field of dialogue that crosses culture, history and inner experience.

“The exhibition – said Renata Cristina Mazzantini – is a precious opportunity to study the window in the world and to know the art of a large country such as China, Far, but protagonist in the international scene, and compare it with today’s Italian creative expression. Art develops a public museum with different cultures”.
As the Chinese curatorial team points to “the title of the exhibition not only symbolizes an open and mutual exchange position, but also embodies a continuous reflection on modernity, about the construction of identity and the complexity of global cultures”.

In the first part – Reflections of space-time – The shared questions and the differentiated answers of Chinese and Italian artists resound in the light from transition to modernity through philosophical issues such as speed, space, exist. Works as Landscape -strength lines+Amethist O Rhythm+speed By Giacomo Balla Dialogue with the Naked from Modigliani or with the Farmer to work by Boccioni.

Xin Dongwang, Antiquity, 2012, Acrylic on Canvas, 160 x 240 cm, study by the artist

Contemporary issues such as society, identity and ecology are developing in the “Expansion of Thought” section. When the Italian artists, thanks to an acute sensitivity to social reality, intervene in the context with materials, installations and symbolic languages, which re -invent the remarkable boundaries of the viewer, Chinese colleagues, rooted in their own culture, challenging and materials and media, respond to the rapid transformations of society and the tension of the tension. Works, like the series of Erroi di Liankshan ol ‘ Event. Scenario 2020-2022 Van Cai Guangbin becomes force fields that question people and social, which stimulates a profound reflection on the contemporary world.

Here it is displayed Spatial concept 1949 by Lucio Fontana or the combustion of Alberto Burri.
The individual experience and feeling of the place is the theme of section III, “Generation of the imagination”. While the Italian artists, by reworking materials, spaces and poetic symbols, understand the tension between urban rhythm and innerness, the Chinese, with different media, are constantly investigating the relationship between “locations” and “subjective story”, in which spiritual landscapes are steeped in cultural depth.
So the Mysterious Show By Giorgio de Chirico winks at the moon of Dong Yayuan, protagonist of “Great perfection seems incomplete”In the seasons of Qiu Jia A “The identical and the different” By Daniela de Lorenzo.

So, remain faithful to the principle of ‘ask not where you come from, but the future together designs, the’ academic exhibition project ‘Academic exhibition, promoted by the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai, intended to explore important themes of contemporary art from 2021, such as the construction of identity, cultural tensions and spiritual.