The Bai Ming exhibition. At the Crossroads of Worlds is the first Italian solo exhibition of the contemporary Chinese artist Bai Ming, curated by Jean Louis Andral, director of the Musée Picasso in Antibes, and organized in collaboration with MondoMostre, with the contribution of Kwai Fung Foundation Limited. Formed in porcelain art, Bai Ming is considered today among the greatest artists in the world in the use of this material.

A multifaceted artist and lively experimenter, he renews materials, shapes and decorative tastes of the Chinese ceramic tradition, translating them into modernity. The "crossroads of worlds" he sought, to which the title of the exhibition alludes, is precisely that which lives in the profound link between the spiritual identity of Chinese artistic-cultural history and the expression of the contemporary, with a conceptual slant and linked to a structure of Western thought. Ceramics inspired by classical forms, from ancient blue and white painting, are the subject of a fascinating revisitation through plastic and pictorial decorative interventions, often evocative of elements of Chinese naturalistic and landscape art, now distant from their utilitarian function to acquire a purely aesthetic, sometimes monumental, value. The exhibition presents the multiple facets of Bai Ming's production through a selection of over 80 works, including ceramics, ink paintings and lacquerware, as well as installations, which cover more than thirty years of activity, testifying to the experience of an artist with the extraordinary ability to cross and merge opposing influences.