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 :
I begin working today
I graduated more than one month ago and fooled around for quite a long time. And then in the end I realized how tasteless a meaningless way of life should be. So I turned to a job site and began sending CVs translation firms. Until last Thursday, I finally get a job offer. It should admitted that doing document translating is kinda boringly interesting. It’s a little boring because you have to sit there and keep typing like a machine (but in the end, what kind of job isn’t like this? Haha). It’s interesting because this profession will make you an walking encyclopeda that knows everything because you need to do all kinds of translation.
My office is 1km south of Guomao Subway station, located in a modernistic and artistic community named “Pingod”. Near the office building, there is a gallery (Today Art Museum) in a futuristic formality. There’s a bookstore here too, selling books about designing, modern arts and movies. In front of the gallery and bookstore there are sculptures of Laughing People created by Yue Minjun. And also there is a metal symbol of Maoist China’s ordinary and non-individualist people.
It’s good to be here, with arts surrounding. But, I’m working here, not enjoying moder arts.
PS: Let me post a photo of the sculptures. Isn’t this thing quite well-known?
