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INSPIRATION<br />
Bright Young Things<br />
Fit No. 8 by Liang Shuo<br />
than older artists, and are often more interested in pure<br />
conceptual work than making a political statement<br />
through their art.<br />
For instance, at the centre of the China Focus, Xu’s<br />
‘Action of Consciousness’ involved two performers<br />
enclosed in a white cube structure throwing 50 large<br />
sculptures into the air. Viewers who watch various<br />
sculptures briefly appear above the cube as they are<br />
tossed into the air are reminded of the typical ‘fast-track’<br />
superficial process of navigating an art fair.<br />
Xu, who won the Chinese Contemporary Art<br />
Award in 2004, and was the youngest Chinese artist<br />
to participate in the Venice Biennale (2001 and 2005),<br />
also made his mark on the fair with paintings from<br />
his ‘Under Heaven’ series using a pastry chef ’s icing<br />
applicator to apply pigment to create exquisitely lavish<br />
The worst cliché we<br />
want to dispel is that<br />
there are no artists in<br />
China besides<br />
Ai Wei Wei<br />
86 RESERVE<br />
THE
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