Long-haired goats and shepherds, monks in alica rasa and pilgrims with ruddy cheeks, ready to crumble in the smiling faces of earthlings, contrast sharply with the exquisite decoration of the Palazzo Bonaparte. The residence of Letizia Ramolino, whose second son will become Emperor of France, is hosting an exhibition of 40 large-scale works by Chinese artist Han Yusheng titled “Tibet, splendor and purity” in Piazza Venezia in central Rome. The exhibition is entirely dedicated to the “Roof of the World” where Han Yusheng first started painting in 2006. Tibetan monks, plateau dwellers, the unique landscape of the region are the exclusive themes of this retrospective exhibition, organized by the Municipality of Rome, edited by Nicolina Bianchi and Gabriele Simonghini.

Born in 1954 in Jilin Province, Han Yusheng began painting his first portraits while working in the propaganda department of the Handan Railway and then studying under scholars Li Hua and Su Gaoli. An artist with numerous retrospective and solo exhibitions, he manages to combine “the ancient traditions of Chinese calligraphy and painting with the European artistic heritage of oil painting”, as stated in the text of his award at the Florence Biennale in 2019. A poet and a photographer, but above all an artist with an undeniable pictorial ability, with a collection of these works, demonstrates his preference for the traditional, fixing on his canvas an area that has not yet been spoiled by technology and evolution, full of purity and spirituality.

It’s worth checking out the artist’s official Instagram account, which basically documents the steps involved in creating this collection of work. Tibetans in their best or others in their dusty and worn everyday clothes, the girls smile shyly, and Han Yushen, always dressed in his work robe, wide-brimmed hat and with an easel buried in mud, paints both landscapes and landscapes. impressive and vivid portraits of the exhibition from nature.

Views of the world

It has already been painted on both sides and is on display at the Hecht Museum in the city of Israel. On the one hand, the painting “Nude in a Hat”, and on the other, a portrait of the mistress of Mont-Abrad. Now scientists at the University of Haifa have used technology to discover not one, but three more sketches made by Modigliani on this particular canvas, sparking renewed interest in the painting.

The awareness is there, the consequences are visible every day, do we need more empathy for the environment? Perhaps this is what the curators of the 11th Technopolis of Science and Technology in Argentina thought and created for visitors an extremely nightmarish and realistic installation that allows them to see the effects of marine pollution from the artificial seabed on which they are located.

The Italian police and, in particular, the department for the protection of cultural heritage, released the painting “Roman carita” by Artemisia Gentileschi, in which Pero is depicted feeding her father, sentenced to death by starvation. A painting by a famous 17th-century Italian artist was illegally exported from the country in 2019 to be sold at an auction in Vienna, but authorities blocked the sale and returned it to the country.

A long-awaited exhibition at the Palace Museum, featuring 900 rare Chinese heritage items donated by the Beijing Palace Museum, has opened to the public. Some of them are coming to the city for the first time, while others are being exhibited to the public for the first time, with themes divided into heritage, architecture and life of the Forbidden City, depiction of the horse in Chinese art, and calligraphy.

“The stage he deserves,” Turner Prize winner Sir Anthony Gormley wanted to offer the managers of the Vorlinden Museum in the Netherlands. Thus, the exhibition entitled “Earth”, which will last until September, will also expand to the green estate of the museum with a lot of works from almost the entire creative path of the sculptor, exploring the relationship between the human body and the space that surrounds it.