San Marino. On Friday at Palazzo SUMS the exhibition “Face to Face” by Tong Yanrunan opens
“On Friday 21 January in San Marino, Palazzo SUMS, the solo exhibition of the Chinese artist Tong Yanrunan opens, which closes the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of relations between the Republic of San Marino and the People’s Republic of China”.
The Secretariat of Culture gives the news, adding: “The inauguration ceremony will be held at 10 on Friday 21 January in video-link with the Linping Art Museum in Hangzhou at the Secretariat of State for Culture and will continue at the Sala Espostiva of Palazzo SUMS with the opening of the doors to the public set for 11 ”.
This contemporary art exhibition, the note continues, “is part of the cultural exchange project between the two countries, a collaboration that also provides for the exchange of roles between the Chinese artist Tong Yanrunan and the San Marino artist Viola Conti, both artists and curators, where one is the curator of the other’s exhibition and vice versa.
The exhibition entitled “Face to Face” includes 57 oil paintings on canvas and will be exhibited at Palazzo SUMS from January 21st to February 21st with free admission. The exhibition project is curated by Viola Conti, who in turn inaugurated her personal exhibition at the Linping Art Museum – MOCA WestLake in Hangzhou on December 28th, entitled Greetings from the Anthropocene! edited by Tong Yanrunan himself ”.
Tong Yanrunan, states the Secretariat of State, “is an artist of international standing who has been dedicating himself to oil painting for about 20 years. In addition to being Visiting Professor of the Fudan University and of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, Maestro Tong has exhibited in some of the most important museums, galleries and biennials in the world, including: La Biennale di Venezia and Curitiba, Museo della Querini Stampalia Foundation in Venice, Osterhaus National Gallery in Hagen, Guangdong Museum, Le Grand Palais in Paris, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and many more. His paintings have been collected by the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the National Art Museum of China. He also collaborates with many major galleries, such as Galleria d’Arte Maggiore, Marlborough Gallery and Useless Space in Shanghai.
This cultural project is supported by Lorenzo Riccardi, Minister available for San Marino in Shanghai, and jointly sponsored by: State Secretariat for Education and Culture, Confucius Institute, Cultural Institutes, Advertising Department of the District of Hangzhou Linping CPC Committee, Hangzhou Linping, District Federation of Literary and Artistic Clubs ”.