jeanne boden

xue song - 薛松

wang yuyang - 王郁洋

wang yuyang - 王郁洋

Light, falling like a feather 

rooftop power station of art

geng jianyi - 耿建翌

The Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai 民生现代美术馆 recently had a retrospective of Geng Jianyi's work. One of the installations in the exhibition showed hundreds of discarded objects Geng Jianyi gathered from his friends. An amazing collection of cups, thermos flasks, electronic devices, office furniture, old typewriters, books, magazines, newspapers, a joss paper boat made from fen-notes, shoes, hats, blankets, a bed, a sputum pot, a bucket, gifts, and so on. Geng Jianyi created a transparent box for each object and attached a card with the name of the person who gave it (this typewriter belonged to 薛松 Xue Song), the moment it was given, the relationship with Geng Jianyi, the kind of object, the moment when a person started to use it and had finished using it and the reason why. Numerous readings are possbile - consumerism, China’s reality of the nineties, the passing of time, the evolution of technology, the presence of westerners in China, the ‘throw away mentality’ from the planned economy and many more. 

For those who read Dutch - see article in <H>art

the new power station of art in shanghai - 上海当代艺术博物馆

On October 1 the first Chinese museum of contemporary Chinese art opened its doors: the Power Station of Art. With a size comparable to Tate Modern in London it seems promising for the situation of contemporary art in China. The Shanghai Biennale 2012 takes place in this location. A bit strange that every visitor has to register pasport number and mobile for getting in ...

shanghai

shanghai

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