Troposphere is the second show of the Beijing Minsheng Art Museum's program to exhibit the contemporary art of BRICS members.

The museum held its first show on Indian art in 2015.

Its director Zhou Xujun says they hope to show Russian and South African art also in the near future.

Troposphere is seen as the largest exhibition of Brazilian art held in China, as contemporary Chinese art is also making a grand appearance in Brazil.

More than 230 works representing China as the country of honor are now being shown at this year's Curitiba International Biennial, which runs through Feb 25, 2018.

When the show began in September, a bronze statue of Confucius was unveiled in the square in front of the city hall of Curitiba, capital of the Brazilian state of Parana.

The statue is by Wu Weishan, director of Beijing's National Art Museum of China and a sculptor in his own right.

Chinese ink master Zhang Daqian (1899-1983) was once the only Chinese artist who had exhibited in Brazil in the 1950s.

Zhang lived in Sao Paulo for some 15 years in a house called Badeyuan (the Garden of Eight Virtues) which was built like a classical Chinese garden.

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