A NEW large-scale exhibition, curated by Marco Scotini, is coming to the FM Centre for Contemporary Art in conjunction with Milan Art Week. Named The Szechwan Tale: China, Theatre and History, the exhibition takes the viewer on a journey through historic theatre and art. The exhibition strives to deconstruct the tools of the theatric machine – such as: the audience, the curtain, the actors (the automaton, the puppet, the shadow theater), the costumes and the backdrops (a changing and unchanging environment), the text and the music – as metaphors of an equal number of social phenomena and of their historic nature.
Joris Ivens 
William Centrifuge
Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi
Taking direction from the latest shows Non-Aligned Modernity, focused on Eastern European Art, and The White Hunter, which examined African Art, Scotini traces the relationship between East and West and the past and present. This exhibition also develops upon the Today’s Yesterday Project that Scotini was a part of at the 1st Anren Biennale.
Wei Minglun
Wei Minglun
Qiu Zhijie
With an impressive range of artists, both of Chinese and international origin, the exhibition will include a corresponding range of artworks, from painting to photography, installation to video and documentaries, all coming from prestigious private collections. Having collaborated with art institutions across the world and with two hundred solo exhibitions of artists from Eastern and Central Europe, Latin America, Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East under his belt, Scotini’s exhibition won’t fail to disappoint.
Piero Gilardi
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Clemens Von Wedemeyer & Maya Schweizer
by Lily Rimmer
FM Centre for Contemporary Art, Via G.B. Piranesi, 10, 20137 Milano
Special openings during miart (free admission):
April 13 from 11am-10pm
April 14 from 11am-10pm
April 15 from 11-7pm
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Friday 5-10pm
Saturday and Sunday 11-7pm