Chinese culture goes Pop! at ACMI

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) will present its next major exhibition Yang Fudong: Filmscapes in Melbourne from Thursday 4 December.

Chinese artist Fudong is lauded for a couple of major reasons.

Firstly, he is one of the more pre-eminent artists to emerge from China since the end of last century, renowned for introducing multi-screen Chinese film installations to the West.

Secondly, his works explore the psychology of a new generation searching for meaning in the modern world and – more to the point – how China-specific cultural and social issues are affecting the world’s fastest growing economy today.

The ACMI exhibition is the first-ever career survey of Fudong’s work, and is the nucleus of ACMI’s special summer season ‘China Up Close’ which explores China’s moving image art and cinema through a rich program of events, talks and exhibitions.

Entry to see Yang Fudong: Filmscapes is free.  Michael Mastess

‘Yang Fudong: Filmscapes’ is on at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Federation Square, Melbourne from Thursday 4 December.

For more information, visit www.acmi.com.au.

Image captions: (above and below) Yang Fudong, Tian Se, New Women II, 2014, commissioned by ACMI and the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.