Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea

Rua Serpa Pinto, 4 | Rua Capelo, 13 1200-444 Lisboa

26 . 09 . 2024 → 05 . 01 . 2025

tuesday - sunday → 10:00 am – 06:00 pm [Last admission :: 05:30 pm]

Artist

Yu Depeng

Round sky and square Earth is an expression used in ancient China to describe the world, inspiring Chinese artists to paint nature. Yu Depeng “transforms” the exhibition/screening room into a traditional Chinese landscape painting or shanshui (“mountain and water”). This artistic proposal alludes to the climate emergency and to the unsustainability of contemporary practices, underscoring the uniqueness of the traditional Chinese ethos as an alternative framework for social and environmental sustainability. To do so, he applies concepts from traditional Chinese philosophy and art, which conceive of a relationship between man and nature in which the former exists as just another part of the latter, and not above it, therefore promoting the coexistence between human and natural space. This proposal is an invitation to rest, dialogue, and meditate.