Different processes, techniques that speak the language of distant traditions, but united in a sense of common and refined elegance. An exhibition that compares the different souls of graphics: on stage at the Palazzo della Permanente in Milan, from 4 to 28 June, the parallel convergences that link Domenica Regazzoni and Lu Zhiping. An event curated by Ivan Quaroni, presented by the ARTESPRESSIONE gallery in Milan and produced by the Shanghai International Culture Association under the patronage of Expo 2015, the Lombardy Region, the Municipality of Milan and the China Corporate United Pavilion – Expo 2015.
Domenica Regazzoni, artistically raised in the graphics sector in the historic laboratory of Giorgio Upiglio, pursues the happy dynamics of the sign, in a rarefaction of the figure that tends to emotions with a tactile flavour, proposing, thanks to the monoprint technique, those which in fact appear as unique pieces: almost a contradiction in terms of the idea of engraving as a language of the multiple, a precious and original reworking of an entire culture.
A gaze with an archaeological flavor is instead that cast by Lu Zhiping, an artist but also an appreciated academy professor, a figure who loves to play with references to traditional culture and narrative formulas typical of China, digging into the past and at the same time constantly rewriting the present . His engravings, full of elements of oriental mythology and mythography, treat the surface of the paper as if it were a palimpsest, on which to continuously superimpose figures and landscapes, heroes and divinities, in a sublime and highly controlled visual chaos.
Milan, Palazzo della Permanente
4 - 28 June 2015
Hours: from Monday to Friday 10.00 -13.00; 14.30 -18.30; Saturday to Sunday 16.00-20.00
Free admission
info: www.regazzoni.net
Regazzoni Sunday (Valsassina, 1953). He began to paint in the early seventies, attending courses at the Brera Academy. He then abandoned figurative painting for a more abstract and informal setting, exhibiting in Japanese galleries in Tokyo and Kyoto and in prestigious Italian venues such as the Stelline Foundation in Milan, the Complesso del Vittoriano in Rome and Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. In the last decade he approaches sculpture and graphics, collaborating for a long time with the historic laboratory of Giorgio Upiglio. In 2012 he began his partnership with the governmental cultural institutions of Shanghai, exhibiting at the Italian Shanghai Center (formerly the Italian Pavilion at EXPO 2010) and at Tongji University, seat of the faculty of architecture. He participated in the 54th edition of the Venice Biennale and the second Triennial of visual arts in Rome.
Lu Zhiping (Shanghai, 1947). He is one of the most important Chinese artists in the field of engraving. He member of Council Chinise Printmakers Association, director of Printmaker Committee of Shanghai Artists Association, member of Standing Council of Shanghai Artists. He is one of the creators and organizers of the biennial Shanghai International Print Exhibition. He is a lecturer at the Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute and artistic director of the Peninsula Printmaking Studio in Shanghai. He has held personal exhibitions in various cities of China, in Japan and in the USA obtaining prizes and recognitions.
