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...pursuits on the mainland are blossoming, and works by some of the region's finest?and strangest?artists are getting exposure in China following decades of repression. This month, travelers have a choice of major art exhibitions now taking place on the mainland. Here are reports from Guangzhou's Triennial modern arts festival (the southern city's first big go at the arts scene) and the more established Shanghai Biennale...
...photo is excruciating. In Feng Feng's Shin Brace, an exhibit at the First Guangzhou Triennial, a photograph of a human leg?scaled up to fill an entire wall?is shown wrapped in a wicked metal apparatus that seems part medical, part torture device. Steel barbs pierce traumatized skin in a scarring kiss. I look at the photo until I can't look anymore, which isn't long. Opposite Shin Brace is Feng Mengbo's Ah Q , an installation featuring two computers running the ultraviolent video game Quake III on a pair of wide screens. A young Chinese...
...juxtaposition between reality and fiction is emblematic of the spirit of the First Guangzhou Triennial. This innovative retrospective of recent experimental Chinese art throws a spotlight on compositions that are witty, even self-mocking, with an undercurrent of disquiet. The packed exhibition, titled "Reinterpretation: a Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000)," runs through Jan. 19. It features 166 works by 135 Chinese artists in media that range from paint to sculpture to video recordings of models dressed up as bathroom tiles. Walking the exhibition's three floors is like visiting a classroom of precocious children: each energetic piece insists...
...Still, Chinese artists have learned to speak loudly in whispers. One of the Triennial's best exhibits couches its criticism in the gentlest terms. Chen Shaofeng journeyed to a rural village in Hubei province and videotaped himself painting portraits of the villagers, who in turn drew pictures of Chen. The result is the winning Dialogues with the Peasants of Tiangongsi, a wall-size series of paired oil paintings. Chen makes his untutored peasants, some of whom prove to be adept artists, "equal participants in my work." It's a welcome dignity for a voiceless people...
...DESIGN CULTURE NOW This sprawling exhibit at New York City's Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the first of what is planned to be a triennial event, epitomized Americans' rising interest in design. The show celebrated vital contemporary work in an accessible frame that laid plain the degrees of separation--and connection--between Frank Gehry's buildings and Martha Stewart's merchandise...