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Until April 30 the Casa Asia in Barcelona exhibits Citystorie and Global Cities, which brings together works from different artists, journalists, documentarians, filmmakers and writers in an interesting reflection on the multicultural cities in Asia. The show is organized in collaboration with Syns ense Editions, Cameo, Norma Editorial, Hangar. Org, Sergio Caro, Gao Golem Magee Gallery, Gallery Vertigo and Marta Cervera.
The project is a cultural dialogue between Asia and Europe, a strategy that is designed to take a look at new cities in Asia. The documentary model of Francesco Jodice, argues that exclusion is a key factor in the deterioration and social disintegration of cities. This has been gathered in stories that are grouped in the sample in each of their content and media, among which is novel, documentary, animation, multimedia facilities. In this way it forms the story so that the viewer is integrated into the dialogue.
Asian cities have experienced in recent decades a rapid deterioration with a consequent loss in quality of life which its people try to overcome, the difficulties of housing, stable jobs and services is an example. This observable reality has emerged, paradoxically, by the rapid economic growth that has focused on them and that, attracts many human groups.
Asia´s population reaches over 2,500 million people, basically half of the worlds population. Although we often speak of economic growth in this region as a miracle, growth has been differentiated both internally and externally in each country.
Japan as a developed country, is not the same as Myanmar and Nepal, where growth was delayed. They did not seem to grow on a daily basis day along with a stable population growth in contrast with its environmental deterioration. Neither have developed a growth factor with an equal income distribution. Today a worker in Beijing earns more than a farmer in northern China, forcing the immigration of people from deprived areas to the cities.
This has meant that cities today are centers of new problems resulting from overcrowding. Thus we can see that pollution in the cities of Asia are of concern and exceed the standards allowed by international agencies.
To represent these problems in a conceptual manner Chinese artists have worked with different media, using art activities and the most recurrent installations. Keep in mind that many artists of this country grew in the midst of the Cultural Revolution, where creation was regulated by cultural policy from the State, therefore the concept of art is experimental, it is a new look and goes back to the 90´s.
The sample has also an interesting documentary on the situation in Afghanistan, where war has been a factor in the growth of cities and a guillotine of new social conflicts.
For more information: http://www.casaasia.es/actividad/detalle?id=204754
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