The Parkview Museum Beijing is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Bridging Asia-Europe, a contemporary art exhibition featuring works by Wang Luyan (China), Gianni Dessi’ (Italy) and Alois Mosbacher (Austria), artists represented in the contemporary art collection of George Wong. To build a bridge linking East and West, this exhibition creates an interactive dialogue between artists from three different countries in order to promote a deeper understanding and appreciation of the specific aesthetic and artistic values, traditions and languages within different cultural contexts. The exhibition, curated by the internationally acclaimed curator and art historian Lorand Hegyi, will be heldfrom 1 May to 17 September.

This exhibition is structured around a personal presentation of each artist’s oeuvre: with no preference for any medium, methodological direction, orartistic tendency, each installment of the exhibition showcases the different visual elements through which each artist addresses specific contemporary narratives while representing the universal character of humanity and the existential quest.

Wang Luyan’s linear, drawing-like, precisely executed, impersonal and mechanical paintings seem to avoid any emotional, lyrical, anecdotic subject matter as they unveil the irrational, pathologic, self-destructive tendencies behind the seemingly rational and controlled systemsof power. Gianni Dessi’s paintings and sculptures reveal the thinker’s deep existential angst of losing himself in the obscurity and chaos of reality, of losing his voice and artistic capability to shape his images, of losing his ability to create suggestive metaphors of life. Alois Mosbacher’s paintings embody mysterious, confused, labyrinth-like spaces, forests and fields with trees, flowers, and plants: awhole vegetative richness permanently transforming itself into a chaotic, irrational, irritating world of darkness where probabilities andim probabilities are mixing with each other and creating aplayful uncertainty.

BridgingAsia-Europe offers a complex,rich, deep, suggestive andperhaps somewhat disturbing, moving vision aboutbasic existential questions ofhuman direction in contemporary reality, throughthe power of the singular, unique, imaginaryworlds created by the artists ofour time.

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▣ About the Curator

Lorand Hegyi, born in Budapest in 1954, is one of the foremost European curators and art historians.

He is the former director of Musée d'art moderne etcontemporain de Saint-Etienne and the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien and the founding director of Palazzodelle Arti di Napoli (PAN), a new center for contemporary art in Naples.

Hegyi is a respected art historian and art critic specialized in modern and contemporary art in Central and East Europe as well as in the Italian and French art scene. He curated several exhibitions for leading artists from Central and East Europe (such as Roman Opalka, IlyaKabakov, BracoDimitrievic, Marina Abramovic, ZdenekSykora, KarelMalich, Laszlo Feher, TamasHencze, Hermann Nitsch, Günter Brus, Franz West, Lois Weinberger) as well as Italian and French artists (such as Michelangelo Pistoletto, AlighieroBoetti, Bertrand Lavier, Jean-Pierre Reynaud, Claude Viallat, Jean- Marc Bustamante and Anne et Patrick Poirier).

His exhibitions include:  “The Coexistence of Art: Central European Contemporary Art” (Venice Biennale in 1993), "Abstract/Real - Reference: Malevich, Duchamp,Beuys" (Vienna, 1996),"TheHouse, the Body, The Heart - Construction of Identities" (Vienna,1999)," Concepts of Space"(Barcelona,2002), "Solares: TheIdeal City or the Optimism" (Valencia Biennial, 2003), "Settlements: Search for PossiblePlaces" (Saint-Etienne, 2004), "Passage Europe: Art from Central and East Europe" (Saint-Etienne, 2004), “ The Giving Person ” (Napoli, 2004), “Micro Narratives” ( Belgrade, SaintEtienne 2007 ), “ Islands Never Found ”( Saint Etienne, Geneva, Thessaloniki 2012 ), “ Intriguing Uncertainty- Contemporary Drawings ” (Saint-Etienne 2016) .

Beside hiscuratorial activity, he wrote numerous books and articles about contemporary artand cultural criticism focusing on the social and political context of artisticpraxis in Central and East Europe as well as on the anthropological discourse of contemporary art. His publications include: "NewSensibility - Change of Paradigm in Contemporary Art" (Magreto, Budapest 1993), "RomanOpalka's Places" (Prestel, Passau 2000), "The Courage to Be Alone - Re-inventing of Narratives inContemporary Art" (Charta, Milano 2004), “Fragility of Narratives” (Skira, Milano 2008), “Central European Art” (Silvana, Milano2011), “ Contemporary Art on Show” ( Silvana, Milano 2012), “RomanOpalka’s Universalism” (Aragno, Torino 2015), “Significant Uncertainty ” (Hapax, Torino 2016).