Exhibition

The Szechwan Tale

12 Apr 2018 – 15 Jul 2018

Event times

from Wednesday to Friday 5-10 pm

Saturday and Sunday 11 am-6 pm

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The Szechwan Tale. China, Theatre and History will cover the subjects of contemporary art, theatre and Chinese history in relationship with the West within a sort of meta-theatre in which a series of international and Chinese artists provide a deconstruction of the tools of the theatric machine, such as: the audience, the curtain, the actors (the automaton, the puppet, the shadow theater), the costumes and the backdrops (a changing and unchanging environment), the text and the music, as metaphors of an equal number of social phenomena and of their historic nature.

The exhibition is an evolution of the project that the curator Marco Scotini realized in Anren, Sichuan (China), at the first Anren Biennale - Today’s Yesterday (28 October 2017 – February 2018), with the addition of other internationally renown Chinese artists. Original artworks included will be coming from prestigious private collections and will range from painting to photography, installation to video and documentaries.

The title of the exhibition is a reference to the theatrical work by Bertolt Brecht The Good Person of Szechwan (Der gute Mensch von Sezuan) written in 1938-1941, also staged by Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan in 1957-58. The figure of Mei Lanfang (1894-1961), one of the most famous Peking Opera artists, which influenced Russian and German avant-garde theater will be central to the exhibition. Other references include the opera, with the lavish costume that the soprano Gina Cigna worn in the '30s for Puccini's Turandot at the Teatro alla Scala.

The exhibition will be held in collaboration with the Anren Biennial, the Mei Lanfang Archive in Beijing, and the Italian-Chinese Cultural Institute. The set up, transport and logistics, the conservation of the works are entrusted to Open Care - Services for the art.

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