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IN the former France Pavilion of the World Expo 2010, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum opened last week with an exhibition “Cosmos.” It features nearly 100 artworks varying from installation, videos, paintings and audio work created by 52 artists from China, France, the US, Japan and Europe.
“This is an exploration of the essence of the universe through artistic language, imparting art with cosmological appeal,” says Ai Min, lead curator of the exhibition. “It brings together philosophical pull, cosmological dimensions, anthropological considerations and sociological criticality.”
The spotlight of the show goes to an installation titled “Please Sit” created by Yang Zhenzhong. A chair, resembling a formal official conference chair but with refitted interior parts, is placed on a slope within the exhibition hall.
It is equipped with a remote control. Once someone sits on it, the chair rolls down a slope. It returns to its original position after the person gets off the chair. Then the chair is empty, awaiting the next curious visitor to sit down. And so it repeats.
Another highlight is “Les Jouets Qui Trainent,” created by Harald Fernagu, an artist who lives and works in Dijon, France. The piece features about 200 small vehicles placed on the floor like a great army on the march.
Each tank or truck is assembled from salvaged metal, which the artist has altered and tinkered with. Since the 1990s, many of the contemporary conflicts in the world are a direct result of the Cold War, and this piece is a reaction to this reality.
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