Xiang Jing participates in “Echo of Civilization – Crossing Dunhuang”, the grand exhibition held at the magnificent Imperial Ancestral Museum of China

2016-02

Two of Xiang Jing’s works Otherworld – The Silver Age and Otherworld – Prophet are shown in this important exhibition, "Echo of Civilization – Crossing Dunhuang", held at the magnificent Imperial Ancestral Museum of China.

This is an exhibition which originates from "Dunhuang", showcasing and implementing aesthetics feast of modern and contemporary art creations. It is the responses from generations of art masters to the traditional art of Dunhuang, and it is also the modern echo to the Chinese traditional civilizations over thousands of years. The exhibition is co-organized by the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing Municipal Federation of Trade Unions and Dunhuang Academy. It is held by the Central Academy of Fine Arts Co-Innovation Art Creation and Research Center for Silk Road and The Imperial Ancestral Temple Museum of China. With Fan Di’an, President of CAFA serves as the chief curator of the exhibition, it invites a great number of outstanding artists to present their masterpieces of contemporary art copying from the classical works of Dunhuang or their transcribing works collected by the Dunhuang Academy and the CAFA Art Museum. With over 300 pieces/groups of art works in various forms, it initiates the art journey centering around the art of Dunhuang and the civilization of the Silk Road which transcending the ancient and the contemporary. Various artworks by contemporary artists show in the exhibition, together echoing the magnificent moment in the history of Chinese civilization.