Surreal century

"We hope that the Chinese audiences to the exhibition will find the works from this movement as powerful, charged, mysterious and relevant as when they were first shown 100 years ago."

The Pudong museum now has a full house of four exhibitions for the spring season — all accessible with one ticket.

Aside from the surrealist show on the fourth floor, Xu Bing: Gravitational Arena is running in the Exhibition Hall X, featuring a colossal vortex of characters that's over 30 meters high.

On the second floor, Caravaggio: Wonders of the Italian Baroque is running until April 12. Said to be China's first exhibition with this theme, it presents six original Caravaggio paintings alongside 54 other paintings by more than 40 Baroque artists.

Also ongoing is Zeng Fanzhi: Old and New, consisting of more than 60 paintings the Chinese artist created from 1988 to 2023, which continues through March 8.

Contact the writer at zhangkun@chinadaily.com.cn

If you go

Fantastic Visions: 100 Years of Surrealism From the National Galleries of Scotland

Feb 2-Aug 31, Mon-Sun, 10 am-9 pm.

2F, Museum of Art Pudong, 2777 Binjiang Avenue, Pudong New Area, Shanghai.