China Art Now!

Start date: March 20, 2019
End date: June 30, 2019
Location: Palazzo San Bartolomeo
Country: Italy
City: palermo
Address: Via Marqueda 81
Hours: martedì – domenica dalle ore 9.30 alle ore 18,00 Chiuso: ogni lunedì

The visit of the President of the People's Republic of China XiJinping to Palermo offers an opportunity to make contact with contemporary art in China, but at the same time also a preview of the great exhibition that will be hosted on the occasion of the VIII edition of the Week of Cultures at the Foundation Sant'Elia. The exhibition "CHINA ART NOW", set up in the premises of the Cavallerizza and curated by Giacomo Fanale in collaboration with the Foreign Commissioner of the Beijing Biennale Vincenzo Sanfo, is a bi-personal exhibition that compares the pop paintings of Xu De Qi and the sculptures of Zhang Hongmei, two of the ten Chinese artists invited to the largest exhibition in May and also present at the next Venice Biennale. The exhibition - which confirms Palermo as an international art center and expression of Cultures - will be an in-depth showcase that will allow you to compare the acquired experiments of Western contemporary art with the new trends and experiments of China that manages to question even the most extreme ones. western artistic trends.