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| ON SHOW Free Zone:China |
From - to: april 3rd, 2008 - June 6, 2008
Open: monday - friday 10.00 - 18.00, sunday closed. Free entry.
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To highlight the further expansion of BSI bank in Asian markets, which began in the 1980s and continues today in Singapore, with BSI Bank Ltd., in Hong Kong, with BSI Generali Asia Ltd., and soon in Shanghai, BSI is organising a major exhibition of Contemporary Chinese art in Lugano. The exhibition, entitled FREE ZONE: CHINA, will be held at the Spazio inBSI at Via Magatti 2, from April 3 to June 6, 2008. Works by twenty of China’s most internationally renowned artists, from the BSI Art Collection and from private collections, will be on display for the first time.
Extensively researched and carefully selected, the works on display are designed to show the climate of progressive cultural opening in China and to support the work of artists that are making the country a focus of worldwide attention. With this exhibition we aim to describe this ouverture, this prodigious blooming, in Contemporary Chinese art, and to relate in part how the latest generations of Chinese artists have been open to new stimuli and have legitimised their work with displays of great originality.
To give a better idea of the various approaches and the movement through the generations, the twenty artists chosen for the Lugano exhibition have been divided into three categories: the ‘historical’ artists (including Ma Liuming, Cui Xiuwen and Feng Zhengjie), who had to face and overcome serious problems with censorship; the ‘intellectuals’ (including Liu Ding, Shi Jinsong, Wu Xiaojun, Bai Yiluo and Jiang Zhi), who were the first to initiate a Chinese dialogue with conceptual art; and the ‘cartoon generation’ (including Chen Ke, Gao Yu and Han Yajuan), who are young, unconcerned and used to the feeling of freedom.
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