Turn to Shanghai MOCA. Less people, more light, less quantity, more quality, and NO SUPERFLUOUS LABELS EXPLAINING TENUOUS CONNECTIONS TO AN OVERARCHING THEME THAT IS ALREADY CLICHE. And all of the artists were Chinese, which I thought was impressive, proving that China is perfectly capable of producing a well-rounded exhibition of internationally viable contemporary work. After Luke introduced me to a book about Chinese performance art by Thomas Berghuis (
Performance Art in China, (Hong Kong: Timezone 8, December, 2006)), I am more familiar with the constraints of working here... I was surprised to read about how much provacative art had sort of eluded the authorities (then again- this is a benefit of performance- as an event, the its temporal nature means that it can exist without tangible form- its mighty difficult to destroy things that are not physically bound). Anyway, the exhibition lacked the juicy provocation of some western exhibitions, but I actually found this refreshing. No shock-art, and perhaps less "loaded" imagery. Personally, I get bored with the same tired sexual references (It seems to be those that are most overused/"shocking").
These works are by Jeff Da Yu Shi, who really received a lot of space (assuming I have got the right artist for all these images under this post), and worked in various media. The sculptures seem to be sort of anime-Boccioni.
Turn to Shanghai MOCA. Less people, more light, less quantity, more quality, and NO SUPERFLUOUS LABELS EXPLAINING TENUOUS CONNECTIONS TO AN OVERARCHING THEME THAT IS ALREADY CLICHE. And all of the artists were Chinese, which I thought was impressive, proving that China is perfectly capable of producing a well-rounded exhibition of internationally viable contemporary work. After Luke introduced me to a book about Chinese performance art by Thomas Berghuis (Performance Art in China, (Hong Kong: Timezone 8, December, 2006)), I am more familiar with the constraints of working here... I was surprised to read about how much provacative art had sort of eluded the authorities (then again- this is a benefit of performance- as an event, the its temporal nature means that it can exist without tangible form- its mighty difficult to destroy things that are not physically bound). Anyway, the exhibition lacked the juicy provocation of some western exhibitions, but I actually found this refreshing. No shock-art, and perhaps less "loaded" imagery. Personally, I get bored with the same tired sexual references (It seems to be those that are most overused/"shocking").
These works are by Jeff Da Yu Shi, who really received a lot of space (assuming I have got the right artist for all these images under this post), and worked in various media. The sculptures seem to be sort of anime-Boccioni.
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