4 amazing art exhibitions you should visit in Beijing this week
Head out to these galleries to challenge your mind, indulge your senses or just, you know, get out of the house for once.
Rodel Tapaya, considered one of the leading painters in contemporary Philippines art, showcases the culture, history and imagination of his homeland through his unique take on storytelling. In Myths and Truths, Tapaya explores the imagined and the real, history and present, as well as truth and myth. His figurative paintings challenge viewers to consider the interplay of fact and fiction in our current world.
'In the new body of work, I created forests, mountains and landscapes, familiar yet otherworldly. The elements in the myths are juxtaposed with present conditions prevailing in contemporary society. As humans we tend to see ourselves as giants and gods that can control nature but in the process of creating our own ‘earthquakes’ and disasters. It is interesting for me to find connections and relations of myths and the present stories on ecological perspectives, combined with the consequences of human insatiable desires resulting in man-made disasters.' Rodel Tapaya, October 2018.
This second solo exhibition of Timur Si-Qin's at Magician Space explores secular spirituality in the twenty-first century. Si-Qin identifies the maladaptive legacy of agricultural traditions and religion in our modern world, arguing that society needs to address the materialistic norms inherent in our contemporary lives with a re-enchantment with matter. East, South, West, North represents both a return to and enhancement of our spirituality.
Since graduating from CAFA in 2010, Hu Qingyan has made a name for himself as a highly skilled sculptor and a great conceptual thinker. His explorations of intermediality push the boundaries of his chosen medium, with playful shape-shifting of form, material, texture and mass.
After transforming time and space in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with an installation that included large flying fish, Algerian-born French artist Philippe Parreno conjures up the ghost of Marilyn Monroe in Beijing, with his 2012 film, Marilyn, recreating her life in a ‘phantasmagorical séance’. This exhibition delves into the artist’s multi-disciplinary practice, as he uses drawing, sculpture, sound and film to blur our understanding of linear time, reality and fiction.
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