#FRANCESCOVEZZOLI
Curated by Shama Khanna

Sitting between the traditions of cinema and visual art, the work of Chinese artist Yang Fudong resonates with the cinematic and photographic tropes of a city and society that is also “in between”: the decadent aura of Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s—colonial and colonized, modern and feudal, progressive and nostalgic. Indebted to the Fifth and Sixth generations of Chinese filmmakers, to European auteurs of the like of Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais and Michelangelo Antonioni, and to American peers such as Jim Jarmusch, Fudong’s crisp blackand- white 35mm films enact a subtle interplay between the political and the abstract, revealing the artist’s passionate attraction to beauty and a rarified approach to the haunting questions of contemporary life.
Sitting between the traditions of cinema and visual art, the work of Chinese artist Yang Fudong resonates with the cinematic and photographic tropes of a city and society that is also “in between”: the decadent aura of Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s—colonial and gressive and nostalgic. Indebted to the Fifth and Sixth generations an auteurs of the like of Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais and Michelangelo Antonioni, and to American peers such as Jim Jarmusch, Fudong’s crisp black-and-white 35mm films enact a
subtle interplay between the political and the abstract, revealing the artist’s passionate attraction to beauty and a rarified to the haunting questions of contemporary life.