Screens-themed Exhibition to Be Unveiled in Prada Rong Zhai in Shanghai

Prada is ready to increase its “Paraventi: Folding Screens From the seventeenth to twenty first Centuries” exhibition at Fondazione Prada in Milan, which is ready to run from Oct. 26 to Feb. 22, 2024, with a simultaneous showcase titled “Paraventi:屏” (screens) at Rong Zhai in Shanghai.

Working from Nov. 3 to Jan. 21, 2024, the Shanghai exhibition will function creative commissions specializing in how folding screens are at the moment influenced by the pervasive digital expertise of layering and screens inside screens.

Two historical Chinese language folding screens from the seventeenth and 18th centuries, a small standing display meant for a desk and a 12-panel imperial display, respectively, shall be proven alongside 5 newly commissioned works by worldwide artists reminiscent of Tony Cokes, John Stezaker, Shuang Li, Wu Tsang and Cao Fei.

Cokes’ work “Untitled (Sol Lewitt 1967/1968/1989)” is impressed by the American minimal artist’s work “Folding Display.” He inserted concentric circles, coloured on one facet and black-and-white on the opposite, in a fancy sculpture-like composition. Stezaker’s work “Display-screen” goals to evoke cinema imagery, introducing an idealized Hollywood home scene inside an actual house that preserves the weather of a non-public home.

Li’s “This Mirror Isn’t Massive Sufficient for the Two of Us” is seeking to discover the notion of intimacy by projecting transferring shadows on a display. Tsang’s Carmen sketch offers with the performative nature of the folding display and the thought of the display as a symbolic restrict or emotional boundary. Cao’s ”Display Autobiography (Shanghai)“ consists of photographic inexperienced screens of various sizes forming a composition that resembles a folding display.

The Milan model, in the meantime, will discover the histories and semantics of those objects by tracing trajectories of cross-pollination between the East and West, the hybridization processes between totally different artwork kinds and capabilities.

A parallel exhibition will run on the Prada Aoyama Tokyo across the identical time as properly.