opening night 2
The phone line is down due to a rainstorm last night.
Opening at Imagine Gallery: Forbidden Fruits by Tung Wen Margue. He shows a series of abstract paintings of landscapes with Chinese words and Western time codes on "to introduce a fake fiction as if he were there at a certain time". Painted wooden sculptures on the floor give the show its name. Leatitia serves strong mohitos.
We hop in a cab to catch another opening at Red Gate Gallery: Huang Yan. Brian invites for dinner after. I find Yan's art very interesting. He does performances where he paints traditional Chinese landscape paintings onto faces - a personal ritual that plugs into the context of urban tribal markings. Unfortunately he doesn't speak any English and my Mandarin is very limited :-( but we have interesting conversations with David, a Chinese banker, on nationalism and the way China is portrayed on CNN. After dinner we walk through a huge vegetable market at night - buy curry and fruits.
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