Philip Tinari: “Moving toward the modern is very much in keeping with UCCA ’s mission of bringing great art to its public and creating connections between China and the wider world”
Director of the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing since 2011, he hosted the most important Picasso exhibition in China in 2019, produced and toured by Doors.
Emilia Philippot: “Observing Picasso’s work allows us to follow the path of a man of his century, and to witness the birth of modern art”
Picasso specialist and the Head of Collections at the Musée national Picasso-Paris, Emilia Philippot curated the “Picasso – Birth of a genius” exhibition co-organized by Doors.
Cao Fei: “I believe different kinds of feelings have to find their own media”
Cao Fei is one of the most celebrated Chinese artists working today. Doors met her on the occasion of her exhibition “Cao Fei: HX” at the Centre Pompidou.
10 Chinese Photographers To Watch in 2019
Aged between 22 and 38, the ten nominees of the Jimei x Arles Discovery Award 2018 are a mirror on today’s China, with their focus on topics including the couple, intimacy, gender identities, self-representation, collective memory, public and private urban space, media and social networks, mass production and consumption, globalized exchanges…
Lei Lei: “The spectator should be the one to gain rights, not the artist.”
With video collage of images taken from photo albums and old magazines, Lei Lei won in 2018 the Jimei x Arles Discovery Award without touching a camera. Doors met him before his exhibition in Arles International Photo festival.
Pixy Liao: “I make art based on my feelings growing up as a girl in China, and on how I feel as a woman in today’s world.”
Winner of the 2018 Jimei x Arles – Madame Figaro Women Photographers Award, Pixy Liao’s artworks question with humor the conventions and stereotypes around womanhood and relationships.
