Visit Katonah Museum of Art to see Shen Wei: STILL/MOVING
- Susan Ferris
- Jan 1
- 1 min read
Daily. tours at 2:30PM
Shen Wei: STILL / MOVING commemorates thirty years of Shen Wei’s visionary career as a dancer, choreographer, visual artist, and global cultural ambassador. The exhibition, an unprecedented joint presentation between the Katonah Museum of Art and The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, will illuminate the full scope of the artist’s practice, offering viewers rare access to his paintings, films, new choreographic works, and video highlights of the Shen Wei Dance Arts repertoire. The presentations at the KMA and Pocantico will align through a multimedia focus on Shen Wei’s trailblazing practice that transcends cultural and geographic boundaries. Shen Wei’s visual art captures the body in motion through his dynamic brushwork that seamlessly incorporates Chinese calligraphy and allusions to post-World War II abstract painting movements like Action Painting and Gutai, among others. Traditional Chinese shan shui (mountain-water) painting offers an additional source of inspiration for his abstract and visionary landscapes.
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