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Modern Art in China

After the cultural revolution, the Chinese people yearned for some form of freedom, some sort of narrative that would in many ways give leeway to the suppressed feelings which culture have suffered under Mao. It was a missed blessing and we are still now trying to really capture and grasp the consequences.

This past week, a New national museum was opened in Beijing, which in many ways can illustrate this present and complex scenario.

First the curators are Germans, in the opening of the Chinese National Museum, which sends a clear message of their own insecurities. The construction took 11 years, and often interrupted as the party could not agree which path to take. The exhibition is a mix of the Chinese recreation of the history and glories of the Party while worshiping the western ways with the title “the celebration of the European Enlightenment”. This is dichotomy that is now deep in the modern Chinese zeitgeist. (more…)