26 octubre 2007 – 10 febrero 2008

China - Facing Reality

China - Facing Reality - will show a representative selection of more recent Chinese art that concentrates on the history of the various realisms and their relationship to social realities. From bourgeois realism towards the end of the 19th century to socialist “revolutionary” realism, an ideological appropriation of realistic art had taken place. Criticism of this was to be heard from the milieu of more recent intellectual and individual freedoms after Mao’s death (1976). Thus, as a consequence of the tragic events in Tiananmen Square, the so-called “cynical realism” in painting (Fan Lijun, Yue Minjuin, Zhang Xiaogangs and others) turned to the feeling of individual powerlessness as well as the loss of social utopias and perspectives with self-irony and aggressive humour.

dirección

MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
MuseumsQuartier Museumsplatz 1
1070 Wien
fon +43 1 525 00
http://www.mumok.at

horarios

Daily 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Thursday till 9 p.m..

descripción del Museo

The collection consists in classical modernism (Kandinsky, Klee, Magritte...)

New building opened 2001; architects: Ortner & Ortner

en el período de 10 dias
comienzo de exposiciones
finalizacion de exposiciones