In 2014 Amalart opens a permanent showroom in Shanghai, together with FYR Gallery, inside the Zendai Himalayas Center. The complex, commissioned by the Zendai group and designed by Arata Isozaki, is one of the most recognisable cultural venues in Pudong: within the same building, with its sculpted façade, are the Himalayas Museum, born as Zendai MoMA, the Daguan theatre, a hotel and commercial spaces, opposite the Shanghai New International Expo Center.
For Amalart it is an important step. After the galleries and fairs of the first year, the works of the Italian artists find a permanent home, frequented by a public that moves between art, design and fashion. In spaces with black and white floors the works enter into dialogue with the clothes and objects on display, and become part of an environment lived in every day.
The collaboration continues in 2015. In May Eugenio Lanzetta comes to Shanghai to see the spaces in person and to sign the agreement that gives continuity to the project: the photographs on this page were taken in those days.
