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Item Number: 135562
Title: LI XIANGYANG : Respiro
Author: Marziani, Gianluca
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788864031989
Description: Poggibonsi: Carlo Cambi, 2015. 23cm., pbk., 68pp. illus. Italian-English text. Summary: Born in 1957, Li Xiangyang belongs to the Chinese mid-generation – a generation that is now adult, but was young shortly before the capitalist boom and grew up in late Maoist China, where everything was changing: goods started to be sold on a global scale and the market began to open up, while progress was speeding up the planetary shock wave. Li Xiangyang knows and loves Italy – he studied in Rome, exhibited his works in the capital (but not only) and spent several years in our country, where he returns with cyclical regularity, attracted by classical iconography, by the specific weight of the enlightened centuries, by the educational value of our avant-gardes. This is actually the principle of enlargement and completion. By acknowledging the metaphysical value of painting as a red thread between China and Italy, Xiangyang also seems to credit these countries with laying the foundations of that figurative art which still inspires foreign artists who mark new milestones in the history of painting. Xiangyang resembles an amplified awareness of the present, a psycho-analytical radar that undermines the rhetoric around China, trickling over his paintings what TV and cinema hardly ever catch.
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