This is the last week for the public to visit the exhibition Behind the Great Wall: New Chinese and Brazilian Art, which ends its season at the Museu de Arte de Brasília (MAB) next Sunday (5).
The exhibition opened on March 23 and now goes to Rio de Janeiro (RJ), at Centro Cultural Correios, and then to Campinas (SP), at Instituto CPFL.
The curatorship created the exhibition especially for the Brazilian public. One of the goals is to show the different ways in which artists use traditional elements of their own culture, such as calligraphy, Chinese ink and the vestiges of socialist realist painting, to create creative and impactful works, focused on current and global issues.
According to the organization of the event, the works aesthetically translate the covid-19 pandemic, the inequalities of globalization, the fragility of matter, environmental problems, human hypocrisy and the narrow and desolate territory of prejudice.
To bring together the works exhibited in Brazil, curator Clay D’Paula made several trips to China, and some works were created especially for the exhibition. A high point is the relationship that some Brazilian artists establish with Chinese culture.
“It is so strong that when the visitor arrives at the exhibition halls, it will be practically impossible for him to determine whether the work was created by a Chinese or Brazilian artist. There is an immense aesthetic convergence between the two groups. It is precisely this cultural confluence that stimulated me to produce the exhibition, which took four years to organize”, said Clay, in a note.
The participating artists are Pu Jie, Angel HUI Hoi Kiu, Zinan Lam, Glênio Lima, Yao Lu, Ilana Lansky, Lígia de Medeiros, Taigo Meireles, Mzyellow, Raquel Nava, Wilson Neto, Christus Nóbrega, Alberto Oliveira, Heloisa Oliveira, Fernanda Pacca , Phil, Sanagê, Dulce Schuck Schunck, Joseph Tong, O Tropicalista, Wang Wu, Sun Xun, Tianli Zu.
