STORY: Art exhibition commemorating Yeats held in China's Chongqing
SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 24, 2024
DATELINE: Jan. 26, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:20
LOCATION: CHONGQING, China
CATEGORY: CULTURE

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1. various of the exhibition
2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): DENG LIANGJUN, Co-curator
3. various of the exhibition

STORYLINE:

An art exhibition in tribute to the literary works of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats opened Wednesday at the Luzumiao Art Center in southwest China's Chongqing.

The exhibition, titled "Ancestral Houses and Meditations," features paintings by more than 100 contemporary Irish artists inspired by the poetry of Yeats.

Yeats won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923 and is deeply favored by the Chinese people. His famous poem "When You Are Old" has been adapted into a pop song in China.

SOUNDBITE (Chinese): DENG LIANGJUN, Co-curator
"We collected these art pieces on display in 2023 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of William Yeats winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, in his hometown. The theme is 'Ancestral Houses,' the first verse from his poem 'Meditations in Time of Civil War'."

All artists create on the same canvas size of 30x30 cm. The exhibition runs until Feb. 27.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Chongqing, China.
(XHTV)