Qiu Zhijie. The Unicorn and the Dragon

The Chinese artist Qiu Zhijie, curator of the last Shanghai Biennale, will present at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia a selection of new works on the occasion of his first solo exhibition in Italy during the 55. Biennale of Art in Venice. Through a comprehensive and diverse range of work, the artist explores the complex dynamics that trace the routes of space and time between East and West, past and present.

Considered in the Chinese art scene as a true intellectual - in the Renaissance sense of the word - Qiu Zhijie is a thinker, an activist, a poet, a cartographer and even an archivist of knowledge. No one better than he could explore these intricate stories that run parallel in time and space. As an artist Qiu Zhijie defines the way it operates as a "total art", basically an awareness that artistic creativity can not be uprooted and removed from the historical and cultural situation that surrounds it and who has engaged.

The exhibition of Qiu Zhijie is the first stage in New Roads, a three-year project of international cooperation between China and Italy, born from the desire to create a platform for intercultural dialogue through contemporary art.

The artist's work is therefore also wants to focus on the processing of those images which, although already structured by ancient forms of grafts, are "contaminated" and transformed by the interaction and communication between cultures.
These commingling of mystical meanings and forms will be represented by Qiu Zhijie also through a series of glass sculptures of mythological animals that contain images from two memory stores: the collections of the Museum and the Venetian Museum of Shanghai Aurora.

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