Xing Danwen – Utopia

Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "Xing Danwen | UTOPIA”, by Silvia Cirelli, 24 April - 28 June 2014, Yards of Image, Milan.

Multifaceted artist with a unique and expressive imprint, Xing Danwen over the years has managed to renew itself, exploring a wide variety of stylistic languages ​​ranging from video installation, from photography to performance. His is a narrative that in addition to confirming skill lexical, Mix ingredients in personal testimonies of real, retracing important steps in the history of contemporary Chinese. Xing Danwen appart Alpine, in fact, the generation born in the Sixties, one of the most complex and difficult in today's China, characterized by the famous Cultural Revolution of '66, the, just a few decades later, since the bloody suppression of student demonstrations that culminated in the revolt of the Tian'anmen Square 1989. In addition to representing a delicate historical transition and especially social, the 80s and 90s marked the birth of the 'Chinese avant-garde art, a movement that radically transformed the local art scene by bringing Chinese contemporary art to the recognition that he still. And among the major players in the lively ferment of those years, certainly stands Xing Danwen.

The sample milanese, by title UTOPIA, retraces the hallmarks of his vast poetic synthesis that made an artist established for several years both nationally and internationally. His works are, in fact, part of the largest museum collections, come il Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, just to name a few. This his first solo Italian offers the opportunity to get to know her artistic, "A private trip but also collective", as she calls it, which tells the contradictions of one of the most complex social realities of today, the Chinese.