September 5 in New York opened an exhibition devoted to the art of the period of cultural revolution in China. However, due to the prohibition of the Government, many items from Chinese museums to it will not get

As reported by The Art Newspaper, the Chinese Government has banned the country's museums offer exhibits to the exhibition on the cultural revolution.

Exhibition «Art and the Chinese Revolution» starting September 5 in the Asia Society in New York and will last until 11 January 2009. The exhibition covers three decades in the history of Chinese art since 1949, when Mao Zedong founded the People's Republic of China, and including the actual period of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), when all the art activities in the country controlled by the authorities. Exhibitions of photographs and posters showing the political situation and the propaganda of Maoist China, conducted in the past. But never before in the whole exhibition is not united paintings, graphic works, albums and prints to the outline established as official artists, and dissidents. Many items of great historic significance, now kept in the storerooms of Chinese museums. Asia Society ask them to lend to the exhibition of these interesting works, a long time remained unknown. All the museums have agreed, but the Ministry of Culture of China, learn about the project, has banned them to work. According to information obtained from unofficial sources, the government argued his refusal that the Cultural Revolution - the patient and her topic is not addressed in the year of the Olympics.

The exhibition will be presented 250 works, including about 20 so-called picture-the samples, served as standards for millions of Social realism posters, as well as various sketches and other works by the artists and private collectors from China and Hong Kong. Some exhibits were received from universities and private collections in the United States and Switzerland. A Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, which does not require permission from the authorities referred to an exhibition of copies of the sculptural composition «The yard collecting rent». The original, completed in 1965, is a group of 114 pieces of human growth. This propaganda piece depicts the exploitation of peasants feudal lords.

in the catalog included in the English translation of Mao's famous lecture on literature and fine arts, speech, his third wife, Jiang Qing (Jiang Qing), in the conduct of which the period of the Cultural Revolution was the whole cultural policy of the state, as well as memories artists who lived and worked at that time in China.

One of the themes of the exhibition - a large-scale dissemination of fine art during the Cultural Revolution. One of the most famous paintings of this period is the work of «Chairman Mao goes to Anyuan» artist Liu Chunhua (Liu Chunhua), completed in 1967. After Jiang Qing declared this picture «model», it was manufactured with 900 million prints, which are divided into the next decade across the country. Unfortunately, the organizers of the exhibition have not been able to get the original of this picture, but in the exposition will be presented to the sketches and studies, which have never before been exhibited in the United States.

Another issue - the contrast between the works of the old Chinese masters, whose masterly graphic works are not recognized authorities, and the work of young artists who were enthusiastic to create promotional pieces. «Mao everything ... We had no choice - he said in a recent interview with the artist Chen Dantsin (Chen Danqing). - I did not feel the difference between them and the Renaissance artists. They wrote of Jesus, I wrote to Mao ».

The exhibition can also see pictures of the world-renowned artist Xu Bin (Xu Bing), as well as pictures of the underground parties No Name Group. The artists of this group of landscapes painted in the open air, at that time it was forbidden. In addition, works on the Cultural Revolution, performed by modern artists.

Asia Society Museum Director Melissa Chiu (Melissa Chiu), which is one of the curators of the exhibition, said: «With regards to the Chinese revolution, there are many conflicting views, and some say that the topic best avoided. But many leaders of Chinese art feel that it is time to once again appeal to it ».

One of the sponsors of the exhibition was the Shanghai Gaoan Foundation, based topical artist Juan Zhang (Zhang Huan). The rapidly growing market for contemporary Chinese art, one of the leading representatives of which he is, already has become the byword. The demand for art inspired by the cultural revolution, too, is growing. His main customers - the Chinese, who take on work for the auction, organized by public auction houses Guardian and Poly Group. In 2006, the picture is a sample of Chinese artist Chen Yannina (Chen Yanning) was sold to the Poly for more than a million dollars.

Ten years ago the exhibition «inside out: New Chinese Art» ( "Inside Out: New art from China"), organized by the same Society in Asia, roused a wave of interest in contemporary Chinese art. It is possible that the new exhibition of works on the cultural revolution, too, will increase in price. «The exhibition will travel several delegations of Chinese collectors - said Melissa Chiu. - I have no absolutely no doubt that the demand [for works by the cultural revolution period, and on this stage in the history of China] will soon grow».

Sources: theartnewspaper.com , artinvestment.ru