Tiziana D’Acchille Director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Perugia The encounter between two millennia-old figurative cultures, Eastern and Western, can today, in light of the widest circulation of images and the sharing of languages, give rise to original solutions such as those proposed by Liu Youju, who presents his recent works at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome. Liu Youju is an artist who, though trained within the solid foundations of Chinese academies, has broadened his gaze towards the expressive forms of Western art, from the avant-gardes of the late nineteenth century to the contemporary, offering his highly personal vision of reality – one made of colour, of signs and free brushstrokes, of gestural practices connected to Abstract Expressionism, yet still bound to a visibility that rarely v...
Marco Nocca Professor of Ancient Art History and Museography Academy of Fine Arts, Rome It is with genuine pleasure that I welcomed the invitation from the Academy of the Arts of Drawing in Florence, and from Anna Balzani, curator of Liu Youju’s exhibition Bounded and Unbounded at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, to offer some reflections on the painting of this remarkable Chinese artist, whose international exhibition record includes a successful presence at the most recent Venice Biennale in 2024 (Stranieri ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, Cameroon Pavilion, Palazzo Donà dalle Rose). Professor Marco Nocca attended the media conference of Liu Youju's art exhibition Our Italian Academies of Fine Arts are increasingly sought by students from the Far East who, after an...
应罗马学术界与观众的恳切要求,这场原定于2025年11月17日结束的展览将延长至11月23日。
On October 21, 2025, in the golden autumn of Rome, Italy, an artistic storm from the East was ignited. The Liu Youju painting Art exhibition with the theme of "Bounded and Unbounded" was grandly opened at the Galleria Nazionale d 'arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome. As one of the key projects of cultural exchange between China and Italy, this exhibition has not only attracted much attention for its visual shock, but also drawn extensive attention from the Italian art and academic circles with its ideological dimension that transcends the boundaries of philosophy and painting. (The press conference for the exhibition was held in the multi-functional hall on the morning of the 21st) On the morning of the 21st, the press conference for the exhibition was held in the multi-functional hall of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome. T...