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The Italian Contemporary Art Day, launched in 2005 by the AMACI (Associazione dei Musei d’Arte Contemporanea Italiani), reached this year its fifteenth edition. It is an important annual appointment dedicated to comporaryart and its visitors. Each autumn museums associated with AMACI and all the Italian institutions that freely decide to join this initiative will open for free their spaces and present a rich program of events, exhibits, conferences and laboratories. The initiative has been consolidated over the years in the Italian cultural panorama. It offers an occasion for dynamic exchanges between the art of our times and its public.
Thanks to the joint efforts made by MAECI, MiBACT, Embassies, Consulates and Italian Cultural Institutes for the last editions, Italian Contemporary Day 2019 witnesses also the participation of the overseas netwrok of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), offering therefore avaluable opportunity fot the promotion of the Italian contemporary art on world level.
On the occasion of the present edition, in collaboration with the National Art Museum of China, the Italian Cultural Institute will present the Italy-China Prize and three of its prize winners from China and Italy: Ding Ding, Tan Fei and Violette Maillard.
This Prize is part of an exchange program that enjoys the support of the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism,the MAECI and and the MiBACT and this Institute. Its organization has been entrusted to the Italian Istituto Garuzzo per le Arti Visive and the National Art Museumof China.
Ding Ding, recipient of master degree in fine arts at the Chinese National Academy of Arts, she is currently the National Grade-II fine artist of China Academy ofPainting of the Chinese National Academy of Arts. She dedicated herself to the Chinese traditional flower and bird paintings, and has taken part in several exhibitions, including the personal show “Searching for Pleasure in Returningto Nature” (National Art Museum of China, May 2019).
Project for in-residence in Italy: Study and compare the painterly lines in both Italian and Chinese art. During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, the Italian Jesuit painter Giuseppe Castiglione came to China to serve the Qing court. In over 50 years of stay, he combined his profound knowledge of the Western painting with the characteristics of the Chinese painting, and created many unique works that possess round and limpid lines, a union between the two cultures. His work has greatly influenced the Chinese court painting and the flower-and-bird painting for the generations to come. Ding Ding will visit the major Italian museums and meet her Italian colleagues. In searching for the beauty in painterly lines in the Western art, in studying the formal compositions of the Western contemporary art, she will reexam her artistic root that is the Chinese traditional painting.
Artist: Ding Ding
Tan Fei, recipient of a master degree at the Central Academy of Fine Arts,Tan Fei is currently undertaking visual arts doctoral programs at the Chinese National Academy of Arts while working as an artist for the National Museum of China. She has taken part in several major national exhibitions and is the winner of 2019 China National Arts Fund Program for Young Artists.
Project for in-residence in Italy: In Chinese and Western paintings, the iconographic depictions of children, its functions and compositions are same and yet different. In traditional Chinese figure painting, children as asubject can be frequently seen, while in the Western painting, like in the paintings from the Renaissance period and many works titled “Annunciation”, children often appear as angels. Tan Fei will take the image of children in both Chinese and Western paintings as a departure point, seek to incorporate the contemporary view and thoughts through Chinese traditional painting medium, and create a narrative space that connects the two cultures.
Artist: Tan Fei
Violette Maillard, recipient of MA at IUAV, Venice (2011), and a meisterschulerin at Staedelschule, Frankfurt, with Prof. Tobias Rehberger, Maillard mainly works in sculpture and photography in the field of contemporary art. She has shown internationally in important museums as well as experimental spaces, and has been awarded several international prices and grants.
Project for in-residence in China: Titled “Ricotti Photovoltaic: put a tiger in the sun, two catfish in the car”, the projectconsists in the creation of an “Alfa car made in China” inspired by the Chinese car industry and by Siluro Ricotti from Alfa Romeo. People tend to think that the Chinese copies others. With a perspective on sustainable energy, this Alfa car will add values to the copy by emphasizing China’s excellent knowledge of photovoltaic technology and car body design. The entire process will form a body of works, and the concept car will be both sculptural and functioning, a symbol of the relations between Italy and China, a vehicle of ideas that connects different worlds and cultures.
Artist: Violette Maillard
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