For the first time in Rome, a solo exhibition of Shi Liang, the alchemist of natural materials

For the first time in Rome, Chinese artist Shi Liang, thealchemist of natural materials, at the Vanitas exhibition curated by Gianluca Marziani. The exhibition is part of Visionarea Art Space’s new season at theAuiditorium Conciliazione and will be open to the public from Dec. 10, 2019 to Jan. 11, 2020.

After the recent exhibition at theAccademia delle Arti e del Disegno in Florence, the artist will arrive in Rome for a solo show conceived specifically for Visionarea spaces.

On display will be a large installation on the central wall, composed of hundreds of ancient Chinese wooden benches, collected by the artist and then reassembled with minimalist rigor. On another wall will be placed a pictorial triptych on the theme of Vanitas and six portraits that combine the memory of the material (wood) with the complex history of people close to the artist. The exhibition will conclude with a small sculpture with angel wings, a two-faced figure that metaphorically resembles an ambiguous guardian.

The artist’s intent is to narrate a China between the millennial past and the accelerating future, becoming an alchemist of natural materials such as wood, paper and leather. Indeed, Shi Liang transforms objects without dispersing their original appearance, elaborating messages that are metaphorical but not cryptic, complex but simplified in their semantic system. The artist speaks of a synaesthetic world, rich in references to great Italian art; an intimate but inclusive universe, an interweaving of allegories with the human at the center and memory as a necessary root to build the reasons for a dialogue.

Strongly present is the anthropological component, embodied in objects and materials that have absorbed the actions of living; the reuse of the existing, indebted to the Fluxus model, delves into historical Chinese craftsmanship.

“Shi Liang enters the archaic heart of China, among the collective rituals of communal customs, where domestic objects encapsulate the meaning of living and the sensuality of making. His is an anthropological fetishism, a ritual of obsessive research and methodical reuse of collected objects so that the starting form is transformed into a fluid climax of the present,” says the curator.

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For the first time in Rome, a solo exhibition of Shi Liang, the alchemist of natural materials

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