Chinese artist's timely response to migrant crisis in Europe

Liu Xiaodong, an acclaimed Chinese contemporary artist, has put Europe's migrant crisis at the center of an exhibition of new work that is now running in Italy.

Titled Migrazioni (Migrations), the collection features a total of 182 multithemed works including paintings, photography, photo painting, explanatory text and a video documentary.

It is being billed by its sponsors, Florence's innovative Palazzo Strozzi Foundation, as one of the art world's most significant responses to date to the wave of refugees arriving on Europe's southern shores.