Cathy and Garry made a great find the other day. Through serendipity they discovered an artists’ 'village’ of 2000 out to the east of Beijing [Bei Gao and Caochangdi are to the north east]. There was also a huge exhibition space called Song Zhuang Art Centre. They found the work of one artist Wang Jinsong here. His work is featured on one of the t-shirts that Cathy photographed for her exhibition. One of his works depicts 100 photographs of the Chinese character for ‘demolition [of a building]’ [see image] that is sprayed on buildings about to be demolished. With so much demolition taking place in Beijing, this character has a sense of great foreboding for an area. I know Cathy is going to talk more about their visit so check her blog on this site for more info [Cathy Busby].
Oh and I see Frieze’s Jorg Heiser has been here and done a recent city report on China.
http://www.frieze.com/comment/article/china/
