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On Stories Long Museum West Bund 1 May–14 July 2024 Shanghai
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This exhibition showcases over forty works related to movies, plays, novels, folktales and legends. The images in these works depict some important scenes from those popular works, or they combine and rewrite some scenes of déjà vu, or they are full of “mystery”, hiding their own ideas or warnings through enigmatic symbolic imagery.

Artists need to take into account the content and image of the text on which they are based, while incorporating their own methods of artistic expression and hidden meaning. The viewer revisits moving legends and historical facts worth remembering by all, reproduced in different codes. In other cases, the original “story” is just a clue, a key, and the viewer must decode the other meanings on his own, to hear what the artists want to say while revisiting the classics.

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Exhibition view: Wa Liu, Yang Bao, On Stories, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai (1 May - 14 July 2024). Courtesy Long Museum West Bund.
Exhibition view: Wa Liu, Yang Bao, On Stories, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai (1 May - 14 July 2024). Courtesy Long Museum West Bund.
Exhibition view: Wa Liu, Yang Bao, On Stories, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai (1 May - 14 July 2024). Courtesy Long Museum West Bund.
Exhibition view: Wa Liu, Yang Bao, On Stories, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai (1 May - 14 July 2024). Courtesy Long Museum West Bund.
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Founded by Chinese couple collectors, Mr. Liu Yiqian and his wife, Ms. Wang Wei, the Long Museum owns two huge places for exhibition and related functions: Long Museum Pudong and Long Museum West Bund. Located respectively in Pudong New Area and Binjiang, Xuhui District, they constitute a unique ecosystem of art in Shanghai: “One City, Two Museums.” As the largest private institution of collection in China, the Long Museum boasts of the richest collection nationwide.

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Shanghai 3398 Longteng Avenue, Xuhui District
Long Museum West Bund contemporary art institution in Shanghai China
Long Museum West Bund
3398 Longteng Avenue, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
+86 21 6422 7636
http://www.thelongmuseum.org/en/

Opening hours
Tuesday – Thursday
10am – 6pm

Friday – Sunday
10am – 8:30

Closed Monday
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