MIXED MAZE: Xu Changchang

28 November 2008 -20 January 2009, the Red Mansion Foundation gallery, London

Xu Changchang 2008, Street Scene No. 13, C- Print, 150 x 111.69 cm, 4/10. Xu Changchang used an image from India (not his own) to create this work. Read review

Xu Changchang deconstructs the accepted meanings of familiar images by appropriating their form, then either scrunching them (an audacious act that is defiant to its core) or shooting them with a rifle. These second hand images then seek to distort the reality of the original structure and meaning of the pieces.

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2008 ‘Fabricating Image from History’, Chinablue Gallery, Beijing
  • Exhibition of China’s Contemporary Art Archives, Wall Art Museum, Beijing
  • 2007 ‘Exhibition of Today’s Archives,Today Art Muesuem, Beijing
  • Hyperrealistic, DR Gallery, Beijing
  • The First Exhibition of Archives, Shangshang Art Gallery, Beijing
  • Images of Fractal-Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nanjing Art Museum, Nanjing

MIXED MAZE: Five contemporary Chinese Photographers, at the Red Mansion Foundation gallery, London

Xu Changchang, Street Scene

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