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Cao Fei, Whose Utopia - My Future is Not a Dream<br />
© Bozar<br />
like the Goethe Institut or the British Council. For us, the<br />
primary value is culture, and so we work intensively with<br />
artists and all the players in the cultural field. Diplomacy<br />
is still something different, although in what we do the<br />
bilateral bridges are, of course, extremely important.<br />
You said that your home base is the university<br />
and indeed community services and the creation<br />
of societal, economic and cultural impact beyond<br />
our peers has become an integral part of the<br />
university’s mission. It’s therefore assumed that<br />
this impact is based on unique university know-how,<br />
insights and research results. The obvious next<br />
question is: how is the activity you sketched rooted<br />
in your research?<br />
This is a very good question, and the answer is complex.<br />
The projects that we do, allow us to develop new formats<br />
of research that are often rooted in art history but that lead<br />
to new opportunities. I’ll give some examples. If I teach my<br />
students in the classroom, and I do that in the most open<br />
and creative way, I’ll still stick to articles and projections<br />
of powerpoints with images. Now, those exercises, those<br />
projects that I outlined before, allow me to enlarge the field<br />
of experience and experiment on the museum floor. And<br />
that’s extremely interesting. Why? Because we’re going to<br />
work with the real artworks, with artists. We combine art<br />
historical knowledge with artistic knowledge. And it’s that<br />
combination which makes the project so rich. By creating<br />
and enabling environment for close collaboration between<br />
the museum and the world of academic reflection, we<br />
allow some difficult artworks to be explained in depth. Our<br />
projects are very didactic. I want every Chinese person who<br />
comes to our exhibition to understand what those artworks<br />
are about and not to feel excluded. That’s fundamental.<br />
Now, to come back to the idea of research, let me give<br />
another example to make my point. I remember that, for the<br />
exhibition we did in Milan in 2015 called “Forme e Anti<br />
Forme”, we wanted to stress the fact that the very famous<br />
paintings by Lucio Fontana, called Concetto Spaziale,<br />
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