Lisson artists featured at the Shijiazhuang Art Museum, China

23 January 2025

From 29 December 2024 to 25 March 2025, Shijiazhuang Art Museum and Academy in Shijiazhuang, China presents the annual major exhibition ‘Reconstructing Horizons’, featuring works by Tony Bechara, Roy Colmer, Ding Yi, Oliver Lee Jackson, Bernard Piffaretti, Cheyney Thompson and Zhao Gang.

With the vision of multicultural integration, the exhibition discusses how the medium of painting, in the information age, breaks free from monocultural narrative, challenge the traditional visual experience, and innovate the cognitive form in the context of globalisation.

The exhibition consists of three thematic sections: by featuring works by Tony Bechara, Oliver Lee Jackson and Zhao Gang, ‘Perceptual Reshaping’ emphasises the reconstruction of existing visual experience by art, linking static expression to the dynamic process of meaning reproduction; ‘Cross-domain Connection’ focuses on the complex network of relationships established by art across cultural, historical, social and disciplinary domains, which highlights paintings by Roy Colmer, Ding Yi and Cheyney Thompson; while ‘Signs and Decoding’, where Bernard Piffaretti’s acrylic on canvas are featured, explores how artworks can transcend the original image, sound or other forms of counselling under the perspective of interaction, showing another kind of order and transcending the rules of formal aesthetics in the midst of disorder and rebellion.

The presentation is curated by Zhang Zikang, Wang Wenling, and Han Kunzhe. Find further information on ‘Reconstructing Horizons’ here.

Image: Installation view of Tony Bechara and Oliver Lee Jackson at ‘Reconstructing Horizons,’ Shijiazhuang Art Museum, Shijiazhuang, China