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The Szechwan Tale. China, Theater and History: inauguration on April 12th

"The Szechwan Tale, China, Theater and History" will be inaugurated on Thursday 12 April at the FM Center for Contemporary Art, in via Piranesi 10 in Milan, from 8 pm to 11.30 pm.
Free entry
The exhibition, curated by Marco Scotini, is realized in collaboration with Mei Lanfang Memorial Museum - Beijing, Italian Cultural Institute of China and NABA New Academy of Fine Arts - Milan.
The Szechwan Tale. China, Theater and History will open its doors during the Milan Art Week, coinciding with miart, the international fair of modern and contemporary art in Milan. The exhibition traces the history of relations between East and West through the great themes of Theater and History, dealing with these topics within a unique exhibition path, conceived as a meta-theater in which more than thirty international and Chinese artists provide a deconstruction of the instruments of the theater machine - the audience, the curtain, the actor (the automaton, the puppet, the theater of the shadows), the costumes and the scenography (changeable and immutable environment), the text and the music - as a metaphor of as many social phenomena and their historical character.
Artists: Cao Fei, Cornelius Cardew, Chen Zhen, Chia-Wei Hsu, Céline Condorelli, Peter Friedl, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Piero Gilardi, Dan Graham, Joris Ivens, Jia Zhangke, Joan Jonas, William Kentridge, Lin Yilin, Liu Ding, Mao Tongqiang, Mei Lanfang, Rithy Panh, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Lisl Ponger, Qiu Zhijie, Pedro Reyes, Santiago Sierra, Sun Xun, Marko Tadić, Ulla von Brandenburg, Clemens von Wedemeyer & Maya Schweizer, Wei Minglun, Yang Yuanyuan, Zhang Huan, Zhuang Hui.

Media partner: Whitewaller Magazine
Main partner: Anren Biennial
Under the patronage of the Municipality of Milan

Extraordinary openings during miart:
Friday 13 April and Saturday 14 April from 11 to 22, Sunday 15 April from 11 to 19.