{"id":568,"date":"2016-01-01T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/?p=568"},"modified":"2021-09-12T00:35:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T00:35:00","slug":"the-fragility-of-mystery-exploring-yang-fudong-filmscapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"The fragility of mystery <h3>Exploring <em>Yang Fudong: Filmscapes<\/em><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an immediate sense, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aucklandartgallery.com\/whats-on\/events\/2015\/september\/yang-fudong-filmscapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Yang Fudong: Filmscapes<\/em><\/a> represents an important and exciting event. It is the first solo show in Australasia of one of China\u2019s most renowned contemporary artists (Yang\u2019s work has appeared in such illustrious contexts as <em>documenta<\/em> and the Venice Biennale); a second large-scale exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o T\u0101maki of moving image art, immediately following Lisa Reihana\u2019s much vaunted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aucklandartgallery.com\/whats-on\/events\/2015\/may\/in-pursuit-of-venus-infected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>in Pursuit of Venus [infected]<\/em><\/a> (2015); an affirmation\u2014as Director Rhana Devenport has indicated\u2014of the Gallery\u2019s commitment to its Chinese patrons, from both Auckland and abroad; and an opportunity for visitors like me who know relatively little about Chinese art (to say nothing of Chinese history and culture more generally) to broaden our horizons. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pantograph-punch.com\/post\/yang-fudong-filmscapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading<\/a> on The Pantograph Punch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an immediate sense, Yang Fudong: Filmscapes represents an important and exciting event. It is the first solo show in Australasia of one of China\u2019s most renowned contemporary artists (Yang\u2019s work has appeared in such illustrious contexts as documenta and the Venice Biennale); a second large-scale exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o T\u0101maki of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-yang-fudong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}