I reviewed the 13th National Exhibition of Fine Arts, at the National Art Museum, Beijing, which closed mid-January, just before the Covid-19 virus hit Wuhan. The show included many paintings of an impressively high standard, although the range of ideas was limited by the political nature of the exhibit.
Each piece carefully followed the government-sanctioned pathway to aesthetic purity in the heritage of socialist realism.
Read the whole article here on the MutualArt website.
We weren’t able to include more photos of the art, so here are a few more that didn’t make it into the published story.
Zhou Zongkai – Red Traffic Lamp in Hoh Xil
Hi Michael,
I’m an art historian that recently started writing for Mutual Art. I saw your article there on Simulacra and I enjoyed the context you brought to the Bap Rui’s work. Are you based in Beijing? I’ve been here for a couple of years independently. Hope we can catch each other before I head to my next destination at the end of the month. If not, I’m sure we’ll cross paths another time!
All the best,
Sierrah