On November 23, 2025, at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, the "Bounded and Unbounded" painting art exhibition presented by Liu Youju came to a successful conclusion amid overwhelming praise and the reluctant parting of the audience. This exhibition, originally scheduled to close on November 19, was exceptionally extended to the 23rd due to the huge artistic impact and academic resonance it generated in Rome. It became an unforgettable cultural event in the Roman art scene this autumn and winter. Exhibition site Since its opening on October 21st, the "Bound and Unbound" exhibition has quickly garnered widespread attention from Roman citizens, international artists, art critics, and tourists from various countries. Inside the exhibition hall, there was a continuous flow of people. The visitors either stood still to gaze, or chatted in hu...
Dialogue Andrea Guastella Art historian What could ducks and hens possibly have to say to one another? Could they ever truly understand each other? In the fables of Aesop, Phaedrus, or La Fontaine, eagles and foxes speak the same tongue; quite the opposite of humankind who, though belonging to a single species, still bear the curse of Babel. Even within families, dialogue is fraught with difficulty – let alone between cultures and traditions that have followed divergent paths for centuries: the millennia-old Chinese art of painting and that of the West. In Dialogue, Liu Youju evokes precisely this encounter of alternative values as a kind of “discussion between ducks and hens,” in which neither side seems truly able to persuade the other. An artistic challenge, one in which the artist has confessed to have spent “countless silent ...
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。
