Chinese Modern Arts at Today Art Museum
There are three exhibitions right now in the nearing Today Art Museum. The museum is quite near, I can walk there in minutes. The exhibitions are Hei Feng: Pay Honour to the Past and Future, “Love You” by Jan Peter van Opheusden and the Interrelated Horizon.
Pay Honour to the Past and Future
Hei Feng was born in the western province of Gansu of China in 1965. He studied Chinese drawing at university and went to America where he kept his art career as a painter.
There are paintings as well as sculptures in this show. And the most eye-catching is this bull. This dog and the flying men (angels?) over head are also very common. This is the head of the bull:
And, this is the other side:
Look into the anus, you can see communities, cars and walking people inside.
These two following paintings shows the once sensational news stories: the nail house, when the house owner opposed government-backed re-construction movement; and paper baozi, when bad restaurant owners fill waste paper in baozi, a popular steamed food :