Two ongoing exhibitions
at the National Art Museum of
China look at art history from
the perspective of looking back, and
looking forward.
One presents
nearly 79 sculptures and drawings to
show the evolution of Spanish
sculpture in the 20th century; the
other provides interactive experiences with
new media artworks mostly created
since 2005.
Conquest of Three
Dimensions: From Picasso to Barcelo
traces the renewal of Spanish
sculpture after it took an aesthetic
departure from the first avant-garde
movement.
It encompasses many
of the main styles and genres
of the past 100 years, beginning with
the modernist ideas of Antoni Gaudi,
up till Miquel Barcelo.
Viewers
will need to disassociate from
conventional ideas of sculpture - the
human body presented in a realistic
manner - if they want to understand
more about the works on show.
The sculptors appear to no longer
favor powerful or heavy masses and
volumes, but consider space an equally
or even more important element of
a work.
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