Lin Yan – LEMAIRE: Beijing Gateway

As LEMAIRE’s designer Christophe Lemaire and Sarah-Linh Tran explain, “Lin Yan’s work of paper feels confident and patient: the way she shapes paper to create texture and light seems infinite. In some way, her work echo the way we think about clothes: a light home as a shelter with multiple layers.” “Lin Yan – LEMAIRE […]

Feng Li: White Night in Paris

Since 2005, Feng Li constantly nourishes his single and unique series, “White Night”, inspired by the spectacle of everyday life in his hometown of Chengdu (south of China) and his daily wanderings through a booming Chinese society, which the photographer captures in its extravaganza and accidental poetry. Transposing a style honed by China’s reality to […]

Picasso and Giacometti at 798CUBE

On the occasion of the French Presidential visit to China, the French and Chinese institutions agreed on working together to stage a series of 10 major exhibitions over five years featuring works from Picasso and Giacometti. This long-term art collaboration will encourage an in-depth exchange and development within the cultural and creative industries between China […]

PePi: Performance Picasso

People performing a cubist dance for the exhibition "Picasso - Birth of a Genius" in Beijng

Throughout his artistic career, Picasso experimented with diverse forms of expression. As a young artist, he discovered the world of the performing arts, and was particularly fascinated by circus and dance. He began collaborating with Serge Diaghilev in the 1910s, and designed the sets and costumes for several productions by the Ballets Russes, including Le […]

Lei Lei, “Romance in Lushan Cinema”

In the beginning was an old photograph of the artist at Lushan Mountain in 1988. There’s nothing of the real Lushan in the photograph, as it has been taken in a photo studio. Romance in Lushan Three-year-old Lei Lei and his mother are sitting in a cardboard car in a reconstituted Chinese traditional landscape. Using […]