9.10 – 10.10
James Cohan Gallery (New York)
Dual Game 2009 Mixed media
The Chinese conceptual artist best known for his 8848 minus 1.86 chronicle of lopping off the top of Mt. Everest that makes a riot of truth and fiction. For his second show at the New York gallery he provokes the viewer to think about cultural perception. Here he presents ‘works by a new generation of Middle Eastern artists’ – political cartoon-like paintings, installations incorporating artifact-like ceramic fragments, works all rife with the clichéd symbols in an attempt to meet (one-sided?) Western expectations of a brand of ‘contemporary Middle Eastern art’.
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