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From January 19 until May 22 the Istanbul Modern, museum of contemporary art in Istanbul, takes us into the work of artist Yao Lu, one of the most important artists in China.
Titled “New Landscapes” the Istanbul Modern presents one of the most recent Yao Lu’s works, winner of the BMW-Paris Photo Prize for contemporary photography in 2008. Like all his works, this work also prevents a formal classification, since it combines a number of techniques and media such as painting, photography and digital manipulation.
Although it uses the conceptual line than the winning work in 2008, for exhibition at the Istanbul Modern he devised a unique and unprecedented series of 11 new works under the same title, which he presents us in a bleak apocalyptic landscape. To this end, he left pictures of mountains of garbage covered by a protective network to digitally manipulate them in a second step, introducing the typical characteristics of traditional aesthetics of Chinese art.
Thus, the picture of apocalypses is invested in a bucolic air, creating a chimera between painting and photography, and between terror and calm. This tension serves to reflect on the mutations that have been affecting radical nature in its native country, whose ecosystems are in danger from the aggressive development of capitalist forces.
One of the most interesting artists, he gives us an alternative and more authentic vision of the processes taking place in China today, without resorting to an imaginary and an overtly political symbolism.
More info: http://www.istanbulmodern.org/en/f_index.html
Heloise Battista
For those interested in Asian art, and especially Chinese art, this exhibition is a revelation. We encourage you to rent one of the apartments in Istanbul and visit this fascinating display until May 22.?
