Photograph by Manfredi Bellati
Arsenale: Chinese Pavilion – Pervasion. Pervasion is the title of the
exhibition in the Chinese Pavilion.
Images, sounds and flavors.
Entering the Pavilion we are enchanted by the typical perfume of Chinese
culture: tea, lotus flower, wine, medicine herbs and incense mix together with
images and sounds to create new intense sensations. White clouds magically appear in the outdoor gardens. The Pavilion is curated by artist Peng
Feng and the commissioners are Zhang Yu and Yan Dong.
Above: Empty Incense by Yuan Gong. Twenty sets of ultrasonic atomizers and
eight sets of high-pressure water mist system make the Chinese Pavilion and the
outside space filled with atomized fragrance.
The Artist.
Yuan Gong. The Empty
Incenses installation releases fog gradually with circulation and when the
space is filled with fog and gets saturated, the objective scene of the inside
and the outside will disappear transiently and quietly.
Photograph by Manfredi Bellati
Snow Melting in Lotus – Pan Gonkai. The work is
about the border of Western Modern Art.
The screen is based on a large-scale Ink Painting Withered Lotus Cast by
Iron by Pan Gonkai. As an achieved
Ink Painter in both traditional and contemporary sense, Pan means to present
the most traditional subject of Chinese painting – lotus, will all well-kept
ink painting techniques, to mark a remarkable new step forward within the
literati tradition of ink and brush paintings and open up new dimensions for
future Chinese Ink painting in his unprecedented oversize scale compositions.
The Artist. Yang Maoyuan – All Things Visible
Yang Maoyuan – All Things Visible. “All Things Visible is an
allusion to the secrets concealed within a jar. Also, this English title basically explains one of the
intentions of this work, namely that there are no secrets in this world. Why I say that? This aroma is concealed within
the vessel like a secret and thus the odor that is perceived through the sense
of smell, and the tangible object that is apparent through sense of touch have
been inextricably fused together.” Yang Maoyuan.
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