The time has come to reframe the perspectives of a millenary relationship, to retrace the Silk Road and the exchanges between China and Italy with new purposes and interweaving. A cultural contamination that arose from two innate human tendencies, those of Discovery and Earning, combined together for the Good. 

The ancient West-East trajectories were traced by the spirit of business and commercial aspiration, the curiosity and the sense of beauty acted to expand these boundaries; the opposite route, East-West, started from the very terms Spirit and Desire, being sealed by the most resilient, unbreakable and emblematic human force: that of Art.

It is precisely the ancient Silk Road that reveals how Art and Business, and more broadly Culture and Business, are two dimensions that have always been in dialogue with each other: the connection and interaction between creativity and design aimed at production have always generated culture, elevated consciousness and boosted the economy. 

By retracing these trajectories, COSMOLOGIE proposes a substantial artistic contribution of China to the city of Venice by overturning and dismantling stereotypes, to which the Venetian land responds in an endless echo of openness to dialogue, rhymes, reciprocated glances like faces and swells etched on the canvas. As confessed dreams that turn out to be very close, overlapping in light veils to confirm a common map of the world.

Therefore, COSMOLOGIE is born as an attempt to give voice to excellence through the arts, reversing the simplicity of the banal with concrete dialogues between routes across the common denominator of Culture. The most enlightened innovators were able to prove it: only Art is really able to disarm the stereotypes and to deflagrate differences of thought. "We brought our secret weapons to all villages: books, courses, works of intellect and art; we believe in the revolutionary virtue of culture that endows man with his true power." said Adriano Olivetti: it is really no longer the time for any other weapons but these.

In COSMOLOGIE, Art with all its power becomes true innovation, a spirit of undertaking, a handshake that enables reinventing relationships and active strategies of understanding. The artists are respectful guests who breathe and live the essence of the Lagoon city, rediscovering the connections between two cultures and two histories, retracing the connections and the more or less strong threads of a long history of economic, artisanal, material and spiritual exchanges. The result is shown in a series of works that inhabit the spaces of Palazzo Pisani Revedin, whose typical Venetian atmospheres are already imbued with international artistic influences. As the title suggests, the guiding theme is once again that of the Roads, this time the celestial ways: cosmologies interpreted through techniques, poetics and materials of Contemporary Art.

An ouroboros of painterly matter that translates and dismantles all incomprehension; and that is precisely how this choral project for solo voices expands, an organism that brings together the universes of five artists, Tong Yanrunan, Xing Dong, Silvia Canton, Jingge Dong and Shengyi Chao.