The Shots of Wang Qingsong and Jiang Zhi at Bocconi

IN VIA SARFATTI AN ART PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION ON THE THEMES OF CONSUMERISM AND THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF CHINESE SOCIETY THAT MARKS THE BEGINNING OF A COLLABORATION BETWEEN BOCCONI ART GALLERY AND MIA PHOTO FAIR

The China of the 21st century is the theme of the first exhibition dedicated to photographic art hosted by Bocconi University. This is the first of a long series of exhibitions taken care of by Fabio Castelli, founder and curator of MIA Photo Fair, the international fair held every year in Milan: "I’ve organized for Bocconi University a project that constitutes, as much as possible, a novelty in the exhibition scene of our city."

Wang Qingsong and Jiang Zhi are the two protagonists of this first date with photographic art, two Chinese artists who depict the rapid changes of a dominated-by-consumerism Chinese society through the use of breakup elements in their photos. Of Qingsong we can find some of the works taken from the Incarnation and Preincarnation series, in which he revisits the Buddhist imagery in order to emphasize the growing gap between religion and tradition and the Chinese people. The displayed works of Zhi are instead taken from the Rainbow Series: photos of landscapes and people characterized by saturated and surrealistic skies then changed in post-production with the addition of large and colored rainbows composed of objects and symbols of consumerism.

This exhibition marks the beginning of a collaboration between MIA Photo Fair and BAG - Bocconi Art Gallery, "a project born of the need to enrich the campus with artistic languages ​​and which aims at expanding the vision of the students and of all the people who pass through the campus", in the words of Severino Salvemini, professor in the Department of Management and Technology and chairman of the Committee for contemporary art at Bocconi.

The exhibition is open until November 15, Monday to Friday from 9 am to 8 pm and on Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm.



by Benedetta Ciotto