A fascinating moving painting entitled The Lakes (2022) by Yang Yongliang represented by the Paris-B gallery.
In this seven-minute video, resembling a single shot, we see a waterfall cascading and clouds passing around a high mountain which, upon closer inspection, reveals itself to be a dizzying stack of skyscrapers. Drawing inspiration from shanshui, a classical Chinese painting style depicting mountains and water, the artist, born in Shanghai in 1980, seeks to portray in this digital landscape not the immutability of nature, but the cycle, inherent to our modernity, of construction and demolition that unfolds before our very eyes…
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MINGJUN LUO AT THE 1000 PLATE GALLERY (CHENGDU, CHINA)
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