China News Agency, Beijing, September 3 (Reporter Ying Ni) "Italian Renaissance Painting on Paper: A Dialogue with China" exhibition was unveiled at Beijing Mumu Art Museum on the 3rd.

The exhibition presents the works on paper of many great Renaissance artists in the collection of the British Museum, including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian and Raphael.

This is also the first time the British Museum has cooperated with the Chinese Private Art Museum.

　　The works exhibited this time will focus on the important features and themes of Renaissance art, including the works of many artists who were active on the Italian peninsula from 1470 to 1580.

The exhibition is divided into six themes: people, movement, light, clothing, nature and narrative. It explores in depth how artists in the Renaissance and China have given life, form and dynamics to their works by studying elements such as movement, light and shadow, and clothing.

　　Wang Zongfu, artistic director and chief curator of the Mumu Art Museum, and Sarah Walls, curator of the British Museum, jointly curated the exhibition, juxtaposing these Renaissance works with contemporary Chinese art for the first time in a dialogue, exploring the Western Renaissance The relationship with China across time and space.

　　Wang Zongfu said that the exhibition juxtaposes the works of Renaissance artists and contemporary Chinese artists, re-examines these historical works from a cross-cultural global perspective, and opens up a new context to explore these different perspectives and history. The parallel and tangency between.

In response to the Renaissance paintings on paper, many contemporary Chinese art works were created specifically for this exhibition.

Participants in the dialogue include works by Chinese contemporary artists such as Jin Shangyi and Zeng Fanzhi.

　　In addition, the exhibition will present the works of Jiang Baili, Hu Shi, Liang Sicheng, Fu Lei and other key figures in the process of the Chinese cultural movement in the form of documentary materials, supplemented with relevant background materials, to explore the significance of "painting on paper" to Renaissance artists .

　　It is reported that the exhibition will last until February 20, 2022.

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