ART LABOR Gallery invites you to an fabulous new installation of chandelier, paravent (wood screen), carpet and wallpaper by artist Chen Hangfeng, along with other works on paper.

Chen Hangfeng arranges the logos of the world's largest companies into traditional Chinese patterns with a modern twist, without soaking it in cynical irony. As an ancient woodcarver might have used the bird he observed in his daily life and place this in his work, Chen Hangfeng takes the symbols in front of our eyes and puts them into his work as motifs, creating very attractive works of art composed of rather more normally mundane corporate logos of our times. Notable art critic Karen Smith has recently commissioned works by him.

Working along these lines of appropriation and reapplication, Chen Hangfeng has over some months collected various objects out of garbage collection and redistribution centers around Shanghai. Out of these he has built a glamourous "Chandelier" from discarded pieces (which he had to purchase from the garbage vendors - and have been well washed!!), and as well, discovering much during this process about the system of garbage reclamation and trade in a city which "produces" 20,000 tons daily. Juxtaposing his highly collectible art craft with the disposable nature of most mass production - in a country renowned for being the world's factory - is not meant to make an ironic comment, but merely intends to illustrate the complex layers behind the processes in our daily lives and also the layers inherent in our application of value to an object at various phases of use. A video of this artistic project has been produced by ART LABOR SHANGHAI GROUP.

# Cool tunes for the opening party is kindly provided by DJ/musician Jay Soul through MASSIVE MUSIC, the company responsible for the music/sound used in the Coca-cola advertisement for the Beijing Olympics.

# ART LABOR is also grateful for the support of Mercuris Wines.