That's Shanghai takes a look at the best exhibits on this week:
To Satiate: Shen Xin
Image courtesy of MadeIn Gallery
Taking inspiration from the post-Structuralists, the Amsterdam-based artist Shen Xin explores the inconsistency of the human spirit through the tension between the individual and the collective, desire and inhibition, understanding and incomprehension. By narrating a text by the philosopher Zhuanzi in a polyphony of English, French and Chinese, or by showing lovers caught between their passion and the pressures of their society, the artist celebrates the human commitment to exploring different ways of being and construing the world.
Until May 05, MadeIn Gallery.
If You Don't Use Your Eyes To See You Will Use Them To Cry: Tobias Rehberger
Photo courtesy of Rockbund Art Museum
The first solo show for the German artist, this multi-dimensional creation extends the possibilities of sculpture to design, architecture, conceptual art and many more. The exhibition will feature a number of new commissioned works and large-scale field installations tailored by the artist for RAM. By creating a dazzling array of objects and environments, Rebec continues to explore new forms of production technology and social intervention, tapping into how we interact with space and perceive the connection between everyday life and art.
Mar 23 – May 26, Rockbund Art Museum.
What Was I? Goshka Macuga
Photo courtesy of the promoter
This collaborative initiative of Polish artist Goshka Macuga envisages a world driven by humanity’s Promethean ambitions to extinction, where the sole inhabitant is an android – the centerpiece of the exhibition. The premises of Rong Zhai, a huge 1918 historical residence that was recently restored to its former glory by Prada, forms the landscape of this android’s experience. Around the corridors of the mansion and dotted upon its walls are pieces by other artists who have brought their own imaginations to bear on the project of creating the android’s own personal art collection. Yet the multiplicity of works is brought together harmoniously by the presence of the android, asking the angst-ridden question originally pronounced by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’s monster: ‘What was I?’
Mar 23 – June 02, Prada Rong Zhai.
The World of Saha: Yu Hong Solo Exhibition
Image courtesy of the promoter
Opening this weekend, the Long Museum presents one of China’s most celebrated female artists, Yu Hong with an extensive survey of her work, The World of Saha, curated by Jérôme Sans. This exhibition shows how Yu Hong reconstructs personal and socio-historical memories through photography and then through the medium of oil painting, tracing the harrowing history of China’s last 30 years and the country’s transition from a Communist society to a detached one in a fast-growing and globalized world. Mixing realism and magical elements into her brushstrokes, she divides her recollections into four different acts that creatively fuse different perceptions of time, memories and the development of emotional states within her personal inner world.
Until May 5, Long Museum West Bund.
a través - descubrimientos urbanos
Photo courtesy of Alejandro Scott
Tucked away on Anfu Lu, you'll find the Spanish Consulate General and the Miguel de Cervantes Library. In tandem with a newly released Spanish language guide to Shanghai, they're hosting an exhibition of the photography used from Alejandro Scott, Dodge He, Joán Llabata and Yao Yao. If you could use a little reminder of what sunshine in this city looks like, pop on over for a dose of local photography.
Until Mar 23, Miguel de Cervantes Library.
The Real Deal is Talking with Dad: Chen Ke
Photo courtesy of the artist and Star Gallery, Beijing
Closing this weekend is Beijing-based artist Chen Ke’s solo exhibition featuring a series of mixed media paintings and installations inspired by daily dialogues with her father, a traditional Chinese painter who taught at a middle school. Exploring family, youth and aging, the exhibition is filled with images attached to the artist's individual memories of her father, yet still providing a blank space for the audience to find their own deja vu.
Until Mar 24, Yuz Museum.
[Cover photo courtesy of the MadeIn Gallery]
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