The Kunstmuseum Bern will present selected works from the Sigg collection revealing the variety of artistic positions found in Shanghai - both formally and regards content. Whereas Shi Guorui engages with outward appearances and proffers a futuristic view of the city with his urban silhouettes of Shanghai, Jin Jiangbo zooms in on the life of a day laborer in an interactive installation. Zhang Qing brings taxis to dance in his video, and Shi Yong evokes the anonymity of urban life with small plaster-of-Paris figures. In contrast, Ni Youyu designs geometrical experimental spaces on canvas in which bizarre landscapes have been inscribed.
Big draft - Shanghai provides a view of the city's multifarious and lively art world, an art world that appears to constantly be in the planning stage - continually incomplete, always changing, never final, and thereby infinitely promising.
Curator: Matthias Frehner, Monika Schäfer (assistant)
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