Hans Ulrich Obrist and Michael Armitage in conversation about 'Yu Hong: Another One Bites the Dust' in Venice
2 September 2024
'The Choice of Realism'
a conversation between artist Michael Armitage and Serpentine's Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist
28 September 2024 at 5pm
Chiesetta della Misericordia, Cannaregio, Venice
Free and open to the public
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The Asian Art Initiative of the Guggenheim Museum presents 'The Choice of Realism,' a conversation between artist Michael Armitage and the Serpentine's Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist. They will discuss Yu Hong’s paintings depicting the arc of the human experience—birth, life, desire, sex, and death—in the context of new explorations of the figure, contemporary perceptions of the real, and the voracious appropriation of world art to forge a new language of painting today. This public program is held in conjunction with the critically-acclaimed exhibition, 'Yu Hong: Another One Bites the Dust', on view concurrently with the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. The event is free and open to the public and will take place at the exhibition venue, the Chiesetta della Misericordia in Cannaregio, Venice. The artist Yu Hong and curator Alexandra Munroe will be present.
'Yu Hong: Another One Bites the Dust' has been organized as an off-site program of the Asian Art Initiative of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and is presented at the Chiesetta della Misericordia of Art Events concurrently with the 60th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia. The Asian Art Initiative is supported by the museum’s Asian Art Circle, a dynamic group of art collectors dedicated to furthering the Guggenheim Museum and Foundation’s mission of collecting, preserving, and interpreting the art of our time in a global context.
'Yu Hong: Another One Bites the Dust' at the Chiesetta della Misericordia of Art Events is curated by Dr. Alexandra Munroe, Senior Curator at Large, Global Arts, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, and is supported by Lisson Gallery and the Leadership Committee of the exhibition, with special thanks to the Simian Foundation.
