Yang Fudong: Estranged Paradise, Works 1993-2013
This show is a transfer from the Kunsthalle Zurich and represents the first mid-career retrospective of one of the most important contemporary Chinese artists today. Reflecting the ideals of a post Cultural Revolution generation which is struggling to find its place in the new China, Yang Fudong’s film installations are said to recall the literati paintings of seventeenth-century China. Yang’s work brings this historical attitude to the consumerist culture of contemporary urban China, and to the sense of loss and displacement within rural life. Using film, the artist creates work that he has referred to as a contemporary form of the Chinese hand scroll. Following the tour we’ll lunch at the Japanese restaurant Joshu-Ya near the campus.
We will be led through the exhibition by its curator and organizer, Philippe Pirotte, who divides his time between Antwerp and Berkeley, and is Adjunct Senior Curator of the BAM/PFA. He was formerly director of the Kunsthalle Bern.
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