Cross-cultural dialogue

East and West, an exhibition at the China Art Museum in Shanghai, opens up a dialogue between cultures by bringing together more than 100 artworks by artists from China, the United States, Italy, Belgium, Japan and other countries and regions. It is an effort initiated by the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts to promote art exchanges amid globalization and to inspire academic research.

Zhang Xiaoling, the exhibition's curator, says the paintings, sculptures, photos and mixed-media works on show reflect how artists around the world are nurtured by their own traditions and motivated by the chemistry being created when different cultures meet.

He says the exhibition aims to encourage people to share collective experiences of life and art, based on which they can develop new concepts of creation, and to engage the audience in the discussion of diversifying and enriching the new cultures today. The exhibition runs through to Feb 25.

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