About the exhibition
Some years on from their first solo exhibition in Italy, Sun Yuan and Peng Yu – two prominent figures of the contemporary Chinese panorama – return to Galleria Continua in San Gimignano. Internationally known for the often destabilising and provocative nature of their works and for the use of unusual materials, the artists began their collaboration at the end of the ‘90s. Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s work centres on the unceasing confirmation of paradox and the perpetual exploration of the duality between white and black, reality and untruth, that which is manifest and that which is concealed. Their work demonstrates a constant analysis of life through experience, in which often the public is also invited to take part, with the aim of finding the essence and substance which are hidden behind appearances.