France Modern Art: Works by the Marcel Duchamp Prize winners displayed in Beijing

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The Marcel Duchamp Prize is a major national benchmark prize in France, to recognize the most innovative artists of their generation in the country. Works of 14 artists distinguished by the Marcel Duchamp prize are being displayed at the Red Brick Art Museum in Beijing, offering a glimpse of the varied contemporary art trends in France today. Sun Wei takes us for a look.

The exhibition brings together works in which displacement is as much a subject as it is a metaphor.

The artists whose works are presented here appropriate every means of locomotion possible, from the modest and the most universal- walking- to the most technological and reserved for just a few - a spaceship.

SUN WEI BEIJING "The works at the exhibition, whether they have humanistic, poetic or political resonance, are fixed in the history of a place, but also in a human reality, in the fear and hope aroused by the changes met along the journey or in the meeting of other cultures."

The works gathered together recall how creating is as much a physical as it is a spiritual road and that it is an act of movement towards something unknown. It can be as dangerous as it is exciting.

Initiated in 2000 by the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art, each year the Marcel Duchamp Prize honors a winner from among four artists, either French or residing in France, working in the field of the plastic and visual arts.

The exhibition, running through June 26th., provides another opportunity for a Chinese-Franco artistic encounter, furthering a constructive dialogue between the two countries.

SW, CGTN.