Show pays tribute to ‘Golden Age’ of contemporary art
China DailySu Mang, founder and dean of Soul Art Center, said she hopes to run the gallery like a “3D magazine” covering art, culture, fashion, and poetic living. The Soul Art Center, a new gallery at the heart of Beijing’s 798 Art Zone, is holding a new show titled Song of Soul. “With this show, we intend to pay tribute to the past 22 years, a timespan widely considered to be the golden age of Chinese contemporary art,” said Su Mang, founder of the two-story gallery which is a part of a huge Bauhaus-style compound built in the 1950s in northeast Beijing. And each has played an important role in pushing forward China’s contemporary art over the past two decades,” said Su, a fashion mogul who has organized crossover projects integrating art, fashion, design, and philanthropy over the years.