The IVAM shows Pang Xunqin traditional Chinese design

VALENCIA (Spain) – The IVAM prsent, from 28 February to 17 April, the exhibition Pang Xunqin. Chinese decorative figures. The exposition, the result of a collaboration agreement with Changshu Art Museum and curated by its director, Wu Wenxiong, a review for the aesthetics and thinking Xunqin through eighty-four pieces made in 1939 and represents a laboratory for study and analysis of trends that arose in China more than seventy years.

In the group of works made in paper and small format, can be seen as Pang Xunqin appropriates an aesthetic that has been discovered in the West to put it into play with patterns, pictures and documents recovered from the culture of their ancestors. In this way, you can view imagery of dragons, horses, birds and other animals, stories emerged of the legendary East to collect a spectacular vividness cool with a Western aesthetic.

For the organizers of the exhibition, “Pang Xunqin (1906-1985) is a pioneering example in learning to face the modern points of view and ways of living away from you without a solid distance themselves from their eastern roots.” “As we can see, he says, is an artist who was ahead of his time and has been a clear reference to the new generations that have emerged strongly in the artistic powerhouses of China since the early eighties.”

The exhibition shows, among other facets of Xunqin path, “some of the keys to the success of an artist who, in the 20 studied Fine Arts in Paris. This close relationship he had with the French capital has led to a marked interest in the Art Nouveau movement which persistently addressed throughout his career. We can say that one of the greatest achievements of this artist and decorator was to renew the traditional Chinese decor by assigning it a narrative elements that contextualized with modernity. “

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