Video Art Under Tiepolo Frescoes: Exhibition in Milan

A group exhibition of video art is on view at Palazzo Dugnani in Milan, juxtaposing contemporary works with Giambattista Tiepolo's frescoes. Curated by [unknown], the show features five international artists. Yang Fudong presents his five-channel installation New Women (2013), evoking 1930s Shanghai with slow, elegant gestures of women amid flowers, bonsai, and temple remnants. The Italian duo Masbedo (Nicolò Massazza, Iacopo Bedogni) show 2’59’’ (2014), documenting the destruction of John Lennon's Imagine record, and Fragile (2016), filmed at the Galleria Sabauda in Turin, featuring a dying peacock cared for by its tutor. Julian Rosefeldt contributes Deep Gold (2013/14), a black-and-white 18-minute film inspired by Luis Buñuel's L'Âge d'Or, and The Swap (2015), a gangster cliché video shot in Berlin inspired by Michael Mann's Heat. Isaac Julien's Playtime (2014) addresses the 2008 financial crisis, inspired by Jacques Tati's 1967 film, with cameos by James Franco and auctioneer Simon De Pury. The exhibition runs at Palazzo Dugnani, Milan, dates unspecified.