Friday March 27th
h. 4.30 pm | Room 2
Three artists, three exhibitions. Contemporary Chinese art at MUSEC
With the GLOBAL AESTHETICS exhibition series, MUSEC Lugano shifts its multifocal gaze from the anthropology of art to contemporary forms of artistic expression. To understand an artist and their work, it is necessary to grasp the connections between their stylistic research and poetics and the sociocultural, economic, and political context in which they live and work.
In recent years, the Museo delle Culture’s interest in contemporary art has focused particularly on Asia, which today constitutes a vibrant laboratory for experimentation. More specifically, research initiated for projects dedicated to Chinese artists has highlighted their reworking and reappropriation of traditional languages and forms of expression; at other times, such research has demonstrated a desire to find sources of inspiration in Western culture—just as, conversely, European artists have long turned their gaze to the East. At other times, what emerges is what we might call contemporary global culture, a vast array of codes and forms that blurs the compass and calls into question the very idea of geographical boundaries.
In this talk, led by MUSEC researcher Massimiliano Vitali, we discover how these reflections took shape during the exhibition projects dedicated to contemporary Chinese artists Yang Xiaojian, Chen Xi, and Zhang Hong Mei.
COME PARTECIPARE
L’incontro è aperto a tutti gli appassionati d’arte, collezionisti e partecipanti interessati che acquistano un biglietto d’ingresso per YouNique Boutique Fair of Arts 2026 (27-28-29 marzo) o sono in possesso di un invito VIP. Per ulteriori informazioni, inviare un’e-mail a info@younique-experience.com.
RELATOR
MASSIMILIANO VITALI – Researcher MUSEC
After his early artistic training, he earned a degree in Philosophy (with a major in Aesthetics) from the University of Milan and a degree in Pedagogical Sciences from the University of Milan-Bicocca, focusing his research on museum mediation processes. At the same university, he then specialized with a postgraduate course in Museum and Art Anthropology. Since 2012, he has coordinated and supervised museum educational services and curated exhibition projects and publications in the fields of children’s artistic expression and contemporary art. At MUSEC in Lugano, he curates the exhibitions of contemporary Chinese art in the “Global Aesthetics” series.
TALK in collaboration with MUSEC – Museo delle Culture Lugano
