Stairway to Heaven: From Chinese Streets to Monuments and Skyscrapers is the current show up at the Artspace Gallery at 16 East 43rd Street. It will be open until April 4th. This a great group show of various chinese artists doing mostly photography, plus for a change of pace model of The Bird's Nest done in Legos. First photo I have posted here is one of my favorites, its called Laidoff by Liu Bolin, definitely showing that the financial crisis is a global epidemic. The second photo is of two scroll work pieces that are done in the traditional style but the subject matter is all modern: instead of trees and mountains they are of cityscapes, instead of calligraphy its computer code and the red block prints in them are of things like manhole covers instead of signatures. The last photo is a digital print from the Dream in the Deserted Peking series. It is a detailed, manipulated digital photo that is about four or five feet wide. You definitely need to see these in person to really enjoy them.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment