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Art Exhibitions China, also known simply as AEC, is a public institution in China. The AEC was founded by and is under the direction of the National Administration of Cultural Heritage.
AEC has been organising and curating international travelling exhibitions all around the world since the 1970s.
We have strong working relationships with many of the most prestigious museums, art galleries, archaeological research Institutes, fine art transportation businesses, insurance companies, and cultural institutions in China as well as the rest of the world.
An artwork on display at the Art World of Antonio Gaudi, an exhibition about the life and creations of the legendary Catalan architect, in Shanghai. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
The Art World of Antonio Gaudi, an exhibition about the life and creations of the legendary Catalan architect, is now on at Meet You Museum in Shanghai. The exhibition will run till July 2.
Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi (1852-1926) created several highly individualized architectures during his lifetime, most of which are located in Barcelona. Eighteen of his creations have been conserved, 17 of which are recognized as state-level cultural relics of Spain. Seven of them are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
The exhibition consists of more than 200 objects, including tools Gaudi used in his work, furniture and artifacts authorized by him. All of them are being showcased to the public for the first time in China.
This year marks the 50th anniversary for the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Spain. Sun Xiaobing, deputy director of the Art Exhibitions China Corporation, said at the opening of the exhibition on March 21, "I hope this exhibition can bridge cultural communications and tourism exchanges between China and Spain.
"I wish Gaudi could bring more insight and inspiration to architects and artists of China. Also, this exhibition will help Chinese audiences to know more about Barcelona and Spain."
Abstract Idea, by Rene Magritte, is among the pieces to be exhibited in Shanghai. [Photo provided to China Daily]
From prehistoric drawings on cliffs and rocks, to the Mona Lisa in which Leonardo da Vinci produced an iconic smile of timeless charm, portrait painting has been a recurring practice of people seeking identity and the meaning of their presence in a world of immensity.
As a well-known quote in Shakespeare's Hamlet goes: "What a piece of work is a man. How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in appreciation how like a god!"
Among the weighty collection of Western art at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum in Japan, there is a section celebrating the dynamics and diversity of portrait paintings from the 16th to 20th centuries.
Now, select works from this collection are touring China, from Shenyang, Liaoning province, to Shanghai, the booming cultural metropolis.
They were first shown at Vision and Gaze, an exhibition at Liaoning Provincial Museum that ended on April 5 after drawing more than 300,000 visitors in three months.
Then they will travel to the Power-long Museum in Shanghai for another exhibition, which will kick off on Wednesday and run until July 23.
Opened to the public in 1983, the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum has assembled a collection of more than 30,000 works from different periods of time and of various genres. In 2018, it loaned selected Western paintings in its collection to the Tsinghua University Art Museum in Beijing, offering local audiences a rare glimpse of its artistic assets. Some pieces shown then are now revisiting the country, including Jupiter and Thetis, by French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and Bonaparte Crossing the Great St. Bernard, a work attributed to the studio of French artist Jacques-Louis David.
