Situ Zhaoguang retrospective exhibition in Beijing

img. poster of the exhibition, sourced via the CAFA website (cropped)

Situ Zhaoguang is one of the most renowned sculptors of China. His oeuvres are considered true masterpieces and he spent most of his life teaching students at the Sculpture Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.

Now, the CAFA Art Museum hosts a great exhibition to showcase his works and life. Among the exhibition designers, Zhaoguang’s son Situ Xiaochun, also a sculptor himself, curated the exhibition about his father.

More about Zhaoguang: https://www.cafamuseum.org/en/exhibit/detail/875

Images and artworks from the retrospective: https://www.cafamuseum.org/en/artist/detail/350

A selection of heritage photographs of Zhaoguang’s life and family was recently digitized and is hosted on Promoter Digital Gallery, and was shared to Europeana in the framework of the PAGODE – Europeana China project.

View Zhaoguang photoalbum: https://digitalgallery.promoter.it/items/browse?collection=4


PAGODE – Europeana China is co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility Programme of the European Union, under GA n. INEA/CEF/ICT/A2019/1931839