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...only heard of the big artists. Zhou Tiehai with his computer-generated superimpositions of Joe Camel’s face onto famous Western paintings, or Wang Guangyi and his retooling of propaganda posters to incorporate an excessive amount of corporate logos. Yue Minjun’s trademark is fashioning representations of his face while smiling (in every medium imaginable), and then, of course, there is the work of Zhang Xiaogang whose black-and-white paintings of 1950s era Chinese families have sold for upwards of US$2 million at auction. While these men are undoubtably the blue chip artists...
Artist Yi Zhou's latest sculpture has all the trappings of a Cold War - era secret, so she's appropriately mum about the details of its creation. What she will say is that it took help from NASA scientists to shape her medium, a translucent substance called aerogel, into a likeness of a human heart. For the Shanghai-born artist, the absorbent material - used aboard NASA's Stardust probe to trap dust from comet tails - represented a new artistic frontier. Cajoling some from the space agency took years. "I had to show them I was serious," she says...
...exhibitions mark Zhou's first foray into her homeland's feverish art scene. Demand for contemporary Chinese art has exploded in the past few years, but her personal feelings are mixed. "Some of the work is good; some of it I don't feel as close to," she says. Perhaps that's a product of her international upbringing. She spent her early childhood in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou before moving with her parents to Rome and taking art lessons after school. At university in London and Paris, she studied political science, but drifted back to the art world...
...will be hard to top the aerogel heart, but Zhou has a few exciting projects lined up, including a short film featuring Charlie's Angels actress Lucy Liu ("It's her first time working with an artist," Zhou says with some pride) and a fountain that she's making out of a Ferrari. Presumably the car was easier to come by than a supply of space...
...Zhou said that systematic experiments narrowed down the transcription factors down to nine, which were then tested directly in the mice...