Saturday, January 9, 2010

Iconicity of the City in the Reflection of Seventh Shanghai Biennale 第 七届上海双年展 - (31)


第七届上海双年展 - (31), originally uploaded by Sun Peng.

It is this distance from works on display, to the extent one can tell them from the urban context surrounding them, that pulls urban space and its lived qualities into the orbit of media existence that art biennials develop over time of their repetition and becoming forms of cultural regularity and landscape that ephemeral events contribute not only to their mapping but also to their creation in a transition from the material to the abstract.

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