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march 29, 2021 - Hangar Bicocca
Eternal Misunderstanding
Pirelli #hangarbicocca presents, throughout the month of April, “Eternal Misunderstanding: Fragments of Culture and Art from Contemporary China”. The program of digital talks and conversations is part of the Public Program devoted to the exhibition “Short-circuits” by the artist Chen Zhen. Consisting in five meetings, the series delves into the philosophical and cultural background of Chen’s artistic and existential journey.
“Eternal Misunderstanding” is a series of digital conversations and talks dedicated to the discovery and deepening of some of the philosophical and cultural assumptions that made Chen Zhen (Shanghai 1955–Paris 2000) artistic and existential path possible, with a special emphasis on the mutual influences and crossovers in the cultural and aesthetic fields between China and the Western world.
The title of the series—“Eternal Misunderstanding”— is drawn from an expression that Chen Zhen used to refer to the excessive simplifications with which Chinese culture and #contemporaryart have been represented in the Western sphere. For Chen Zhen—among the first generation of contemporary Chinese artists who established themselves in Europe starting from the 1980s, and part of a diaspora emblematic of the growing globalization of the international art system—
concepts such as misunderstanding and short-circuit also have a positive meaning, as they represent elements that generate new creative and meaningful spaces outside of defined and monolithic identities.Starting from some of the themes underlying Chen Zhen's research and his "Short-Circuits" exhibition, presented in the spaces of Pirelli #hangarbicocca until 6 June 2021, the series “Eternal Misunderstanding” is developed through five appointments and involves international scholars
and curators from a wide variety of geographical and disciplinary contexts: the scholar of aesthetics and intercultural philosophy Marcello Ghilardi; the curator Davide Quadrio, who has been working between Italy and China for over twenty-five years; the New York-based critic and curator Wang Xin; the scholar and teacher Franziska Koch; the Beijing-based art historian and curator Mia Yu; and the Daoism expert Elena Valussi, who lives and teaches in Chicago.
The appointments
The first two meetings are dedicated to the deepening of certain philosophical and cultural aspects that are fundamental to Chen Zhen's poetics.
On Thursday 1 April 2021, at 7 PM [GMT+1], Marcello Ghilardi, associate professor of Aesthetics at the University of Padua, will give a talk about “Other spaces, other times. Forms of aesthetics between Europe and China” by reflecting on the existing differences and communalities in order to develop a shared discourse between China and European-based thinking, starting from concepts such as time, universe, place, duration, gesture, form.
Marcello Ghilardi is associate professor of Aesthetics at the University of Padua. He is also a member of the research group on the Borges "Orbis Tertius" project at Milan-Bicocca University. His research interests pivot on intercultural philosophy and the relationship between art and thought in the interchange between European and Sino-Japanese traditions. He translated Shi Tao's classic, Analects on Painting from Chinese (2014); among his published works: Arte e pensiero in Giappone (Art and Thought in Japan, 2011); Filosofia dell’interculturalità (Philosophy of Interculturality, 2012); Il vuoto, le forme, l’altro (Void, Forms, the Other, 2014); La radice del sole (The Root of the Sun, 2019); Arte e meditazione (Art and Meditation, 2020).
On Thursday 8 April 2021 at 7 PM [GMT+1], Elena Valussi, Senior Lecturer of the History Department of Loyola University in Chicago and a scholar of Daoism, gender, sexuality and religion in China, will explore the “Concept of the body in Daoism and Chinese medicine in dialogue with the art of Chen Zhen”, reflecting on the physical and spiritual healing and purification procedures of the body in Daoism and Chinese medicine. Elena Valussi graduated in Oriental Languages from the University of Venice, she obtained an MA in Religions of China, and a doctorate in History of Chinese religions from the SOAS University of London. She is a Senior Lecturer in the History Department of Loyola University in Chicago. Together with Stefania Travagnin she directs the “Religious Diversity in Sichuan Province” project. With Natasha Heller, she directs “Women in Asian religions”. With Matthias Schumann, she is currently editing the book Spirit Writing in Chinese History and Contemporary Practice. She was elected vice-president of the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions. She has just finished codirecting the Daoist Studies Group at the American Academy of Religions. Her academic focus is on Daoism, gender, sexuality and religion in China, specifically from the Qing to the Republican period.
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