The rain stopped, the temperature dropped and then rose again. It's hot as hell now and I think I may be catching a cold but can't be for sure.
Here are some images of the stores I describe in the post before last. Stores that carry direct renditions of Yue Minjun, Liu Ye, Zhang Xiaogang, Zheng Fengjie, etc. The Yue Minjun painting of that ubiquitous smiley face wearing a hat goes for 300RMB~39USD. The large one, being painted for a Taiwanese client, will go for 1800~ 210bucks. I must say the lad is doing a fine job. The painters are recent college graduates from no name art schools in faraway places, like Hunan, Xinjiang and the like. They paint what they like to- one is painting the work of Han Yajuan, a recent graduate of a very well named art school - The Central Academy in Beijing. She just had a solo show a few months ago... now they've got the catalog and are making copies.
Pauline Yao recently curated a show about the culture of fakes at Universal Studios in Beijing. The best piece in the show was a work by an anonymous, presumably Western artist. It was a Karoke lounge where Matthew Barney videos were tailored as sing along Karaoke clips. I crooned to The Who's, "Teenage Wasteland" aka "Barbara O'Reilly" as Matthew Barney rode around on a horse in his avant garde undies beneath Roger Daltry's lyrics.
Yes in this age of finite intellectual resources we must recycle... we cannot, however, pretend to fake each other out too long.
Now it's raining again
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