by ShanghART Gallery (Main and H Space) Location: The University of Chicago's Logan Center
Artist(s): YANG Fu Dong
Date: 28 Feb - 30 Mar 2014
A focused selection of video works spanning the 20+ year career of one of China's most iconic film-based artists, Yang Fudong.
The exhibition features the poignant, multi-channel meditation on the artist's place of birth, East of Que Village (2007). An objective if fractured depiction of an isolated village in rural Hebei populated mostly by wild dogs, this work presents a contrast to the images of beautiful and urbane Chinese youth which have come to define Fudong's films. While these characters still appear in the exhibition in rarely-seen single-channel works, the overall presentation aims to present the complexity of the artist's vision of contemporary Chinese culture.
