Wang Tuo’s work will be on view at a group exhibition “How Modern: Biographies of Architecture in China 1949-1979” at Canadian Centre for Architecture.
“The exhibition How Modern: Biographies of Architecture in China 1949-1979, produced and curated in collaboration with M+ Museum in Hong Kong, reconsiders these assumptions. The exhibition takes the multimedia documentation of architectural production under the socialist Chinese regime as a point of departure, illuminating specific social and cultural microhistories that are not evident in purely textual historical sources. These social biographies of projects—characterized by material and technical inventiveness, continuities and discontinuities with social, economic, and political inclinations, and direct and indirect influences from within and beyond the Eastern bloc—challenge prevailing assessments of design and architectural practice in Mao’s China as monolithic, hermetic, and autocratic.” – Canadian Centre for Architecture
Curator: Shirley Surya, M+, Hong Kong
Venue: Canadian Centre for Architecture (1920 rue Baile, Montreal, Quebec H3H 2S6, Canada)