Cao Fei - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3777432040 ISBN 13: 9783777432045

Publisher: Hirmer Publishers, 2019

Synopsis

The Beijing artist Cao Fei creates works that lie on the threshold between reality and fiction, reflecting the urban realities and societal moods of China. In her works, which vary between the aesthetics of documentary, film, and virtual reality, Cao Fei explores the nation’s ongoing transformations by drawing on her personal life and surroundings in Beijing. As an artist, she addresses questions that are universal to urban dwellers: Where is the development in big cities leading? What is the individual’s place within a rapidly changing urban society? Is it possible to be a critical observer of gentrification processes and at the same time be a part of the problem? The videos, photographs, drawings, and multimedia installations assembled in this stunning volume capture the entire oeuvre of this internationally acclaimed artist, and embark at the same time on a critical study of gentrification and urban living.
 

About this title

About the Author:

Susanne Gaensheimer is an art historian and curator and the director of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, where Kathrin Beßen is curator of modern and contemporary art.
 

About this edition

• Publisher: Hirmer Publishers
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 3777432040
• ISBN 13: 9783777432045
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Gaensheimer Susanne, Beßen Kathrin