On December 6, 2023, the opening ceremony of the exhibition "Global Painting——La Nuova pittura in China" took place in the academic lecture hall of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto (MART), Italy. The exhibition showcases 106 paintings from 24 young Chinese artists born in the 1980s and 1990s.
Paolo De Grandis and I curate this exhibiition co-operationally. The selection of these 24 young Chinese artists, in my view, aims to provide the Italian and European audience with a glimpse of the latest developments in contemporary China through their artworks. As an art historian, I understand the existing perceptions of European audiences regarding Chinese contemporary art over the past decades. However, faced with recent changes, Western audiences and the academic community remain unfamiliar. Therefore, this exhibition serves as a significant presentation not only of a relatively large-scale showcase organized by Chinese artists abroad post-pandemic but also as a concentrated display of the forward progress of Chinese contemporary painting history on the global art stage. This exhibition is part of the European and American touring plan.