At Palazzo Pitti the first Italian solo exhibition of Chinese artist Wang Guangyi

From Sept. 7 to Dec. 10, 2023, the Andito degli Angiolini at Palazzo Pitti will host the first solo exhibition in Italy of Wang Guangyi, among the most famous Chinese artists of our time, who in his work tackles the encounter of Western and Eastern pictorial traditions.

Obscured Existence, this is the title of the exhibition curated by Eike Schmidt and Demetrio Paparoni, will bring together twenty-eight paintings never exhibited in the West, made from 2014 to the present. A number of paintings created by the artist for the occasion will also be on display, presenting revisitations of Uffizi masterpieces.

Wang Guangyi was born in Harbin in Manchuria, northern China, in 1957, and lives and works in Beijing; he also participated in the Venice Biennale in 2013, and his works can be found in the permanent collections of public museums around the world, including the new M+ in Hong Kong, museums in Shenzhen, Guangdong, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Beijing, the Tate Modern in London, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum Ludwig in Aachen, and many others.

“We are proud to be able to present the first solo exhibition in Italy of Wang Guangyi, an internationally renowned artist who reinterprets collective imaginaries - and in particular also some of the works in the Uffizi - with eyes that look beyond the image, beyond the boundaries of visual and metaphorical languages, to analyze the human condition in relation to transcendence,” said Uffizi Galleries Director Eike Schmidt.

Image: Wang Guangyi, Enlarged Medusa (2023; acrylic on canvas, 160 x 160 cm)

At Palazzo Pitti the first Italian solo exhibition of Chinese artist Wang Guangyi

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