chinese contemporary art--shanghai

in our Shanghai contemporary art foray, we had started at Biz-Art, a not-for-profit gallery and design studio. Alexia, the gallerist, gave our party a warm welcome that included a tour of the gallery, where they have a summer video exhibition, as well as some conversation on the recent events in contemporary art in China. The Morgenshan art district is pretty cool. On one end of the street working people hang out their laundry to dry on the other one finds swishy modernist steel structures and refurbished warehouses––all the signs of a pomo art scene stepping up to the plate. Here are images from Yang Fudong’s sexy lovely video noir piece, ShangArt, the first contemporary art gallery in Shanghai, and the view out of the Eastlink gallery. Painting by Zheng Giang. If want a translation of the poem cited in the painting email us projectgoodluck@gmail.com, with a cc to supergirl Liwen. Btw, the “Shanghai Living” project by Hu Yang, where he documented over the course of two years 500 Shanghai households is off the ding-alinger. Available at the Pudong airport mes biches.