Going global

Chinese artist Wang Luyan is presenting his paintings at the Bridging Asia-Europe exhibition. [Photo provided to China Daily]

An ongoing exhibition in Beijing brings together artists from China and Europe. Lin Qi reports.

Three artists featured at the Bridging Asia-Europe exhibition series－Wang Luyan from China, Gianni Dessi from Italy and Alois Mosbacher from Austria－show how some artists who grew up in a less-globalized world still managed to develop individual styles and reshape the landscape of contemporary art.

Bridging Asia-Europe, launched by The Parkview Museum in Beijing, is a series of exhibitions to encourage communication between Asian and European artists. The first show, now underway through Sept 17, teams up Wang, Dessi and Mosbacher, whose artworks are part of collections of George Wong, the museum's founder and an entrepreneur from Hong Kong.

Through their paintings and installations, the three artists demonstrate distinctive approaches to topics in today's world, such as openness, freedom, traditions and respect.

The series will include exhibitions by other artists as well.

Lorand Hegyi, the current exhibition's Hungarian curator, says the three artists were all born in the early 1950s, a period when the world was divided into two "antagonistic hemispheres".

"Their generation witnessed many critical events of the Cold War. When the three artists became active in the 1980s, they staged (works) on the platform of multicultural globalization."