A New Dynasty – Created in China
If in Aarhus, second largest city in Denmark with a very active cultural life, don’t miss the art museum Aros that has always interesting exhibitions and a fine collection of new Danish artists like Per Kirkeby, recently portrayed in a new documentary by Anne Wivel.
In between the Baltic Frames documentary festival there was time to visit the museum that has the rainbow panorama circle roof as the guiding star into the many floors, where ”our” exhibition were placed on two of them with works of 24 ”of the most significant Chinese contemporary artists”, several of them with critical comments in their works to the society and its politics, to Mao’s cultural revolution of course – but several were looking into history and myths with so-called poetic reflection and ”respect for the craft and the rich cultural past”.
There were paintings, installations, sculptures, video art of high quality – and the one on the photo I took:
”Holidays” from 2012 by Ji Wenyu and Zhu Weibing, a visit to the nature, the whole family is there, dressed nicely, ready to be photographed, staged documentary photo, an interpretation of a Chinese reality where nature is something you create!
The excellent exhibition, that also includes a work by super star Ai Wei Wei, runs until May 22 2016
