The Perfect Path
La Biennale di Venezia and the China Academy of Art (CAA) inaugurated The Perfect Path. Hangzhou, Marco Polo’s “city of heaven”, a group exhibition of contemporary art curated by Luigia Lonardelli, at the Art Museum of China Academy of Art at Hangzhou (Zhejiang, People's Republic of China), open from 10 November 2024 to 10 January 2025.
The exhibition represents the first stage of the Special Project by La Biennale di Venezia’s Historical Archive titled The Wind Makes the Sky. La Biennale di Venezia on the Traces of Marco Polo, which retraces Marco Polo’s travels on the 700th anniversary of his death (1324 – 2024), realized with the special support of the Italian Cultural Institute in Shanghai and the Consulate General of Italy in Shanghai.
This exhibition is the sign of the first collaboration arising from the three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) recently signed by La Biennale di Venezia and the China Academy of Art (CAA), with the intent to activate a series of exchange programmes and to promote a cultural and artistic dialogue between Italy and China.
The second stage of the project will open in December 2024 in Venice at La Biennale Headquarter, and the third stage in the fall of 2025 in Istanbul.
The Perfect Path is a group exhibition of contemporary art that brings together a group of 18 Chinese artists, based on experimentation that has found fertile ground in the China Academy of Art (CAA).
On Sunday 10 November, the exhibition will be visited by the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella.
The Way Is Infinite: Centennial Retrospective Exhibition of Zao Wou-Ki
Zao Wou-Ki was a world-famous Chinese-French painter. Born in Beijing in 1920, Zao was admitted to the Hangzhou National College of Art (now the CAA) in 1935 and worked as an instructor at the school after graduating in 1941. He traveled to France for further studies in 1948 and was invited by the Ministry of Culture to give lectures in his alma mater in 1985.