Lyu Yue (Aluna) performed her new work “Missy Butterfly” as the descendent of the installation work “Madame Butterfly”.
The performance art piece “Missy Butterfly” was presented at Venice, Italy. This is the first time for Aluna characteristically involving herself in a performance in Venice Biennale. “Missy Butterfly” in the form of video art attended “Back to Childhood——BIENNALE ARTE 2019 58th International Art Exhibition (China Special Exhibition)”, at Castello 780.
This China Special Exhibition within the duration of Venice Biennale presented the potentiality and achievements of Chinese artists in an international context, and also the vibrancy of Chinese contemporary art.
Lyu Yue (Aluna) performed her new work “Missy Butterfly”
“Missy Butterfly” continued the element of indigo dye, the Chinese intangible cultural heritage with an exaggeration of butterfly wings wearing by the little girls. Winged missies were flying and playing at Piazza San Marco. Aluna in indigo dyed clothing accompanied them at dusk through the dawn. The day before sunrise and the day after sunset symbolise a life dating from the childhood. They witnessed the departing of the vessel, the drifting of Gondola, the fluttering of doves and seagulls......Reality and illusion, freedom and confinement, the shallow and the deep, gone away and coming back, the east and the east, tradition and contemporary......Butterfly symbolises Change, the pupa could transform into the fly, the missy would turn into the madame, the world is fused in change......
The three butterfly missies are volunteers from Germany and Italy, Cecilia Zheng, Yolanda Ma and Constance Circelli. They are all born in the west but have Chinese ethics. The participation of them also displayed an aspect of the fusion of the world. They were gaming and mingled with the environment, playing and interacting with the world. Back to the childhood, it is still a fine tale.
Aluna also presented her work “Madame Butterfly”, “Transformation” and “Little Black Clouds” in the form of book.
Audience visited the exhibition
Co-sponsored by Beijing 2102 Art Space and Castro 780 Art Space of Venice, curated by the independent curator and artist Zhang Wei, “Back to Childhood——BIENNALE ARTE 2019 58th International Art Exhibition (China Special Exhibition)” was held at Castello 780 this September. The exhibition divided into two sectors, dynamic conversation of the public city area and static display of the art book store. The store exhibited 300 art books characterised in the form of documentations and archives to present those names in diverse field who achieved remarkable contributions to human beings since 19th century to 21st century. Their childhood and the inherent nature were searched by the art book store.
Attended artists were: Andrea Cavazzuti, Lyu Yue (Aluna), Chen Xu Ren Ren, Ma Jun, Qi Mengguang, Wang Zhenyu, Luo Chengzhi, Zhang Qianqian, Chen Xi, Yu Hong, Liu Libin, Liu Xiaodong, Lv Pinchang, Jiang Jie, Huang Sheng, Jin Xiaoyao, Yu Gao, Zhang Langlang, Zhang Wei.
Word | Yifan WANG
Layout | Yaru YANG / Long CHEN
