Marcel Duchamp Prize nominees promote Sino-French cultural ties

Kadar Attia addresses the theme of repair through the sculpture, Ring Theory. [Photo provided to China Daily]

The trend is exemplified in the work of the only Chinese-born artist at the exhibition and 2002 Marcel Duchamp Prize nominee, Wang Du, whose pieces are hybrids of architecture, performance art and improv. With his symbolic giant sculptures and installations, he often criticizes today's media landscape and consumerist society.

Three of his works－Internal Medicine, Surgery and Urology－appear at Bridging the Gap and are taken from his 2016 solo exhibition, The Clinic of the World, which seeks to diagnose the ills of society.

Contemporary art takes up a substantial part of this year's Festival Croisements, which will host 68 events, ranging from art, drama, music to film, in 30 Chinese cities.

2018 marks the 13th year of the festival, which has evolved into the biggest foreign cultural festival in China and the biggest French cultural festival outside of France.

Since its establishment in 2005, more than 19 million people have participated in the festival, which, according to Robert Lacombe, director of the French Institute of China, maintains its original aim to encourage and develop encounters between the artists and cultural institutions of the two countries.

If you go

May 15 to June 17 (except Mondays), 9 am to 5 pm (entry before 4:30 pm). First-floor exhibition hall of the Tsinghua University Art Museum.