Curiouser and Curiouser

Luxury Logico Artist Collective, Solar, 2011, lights, sound, computer
Image reproduced courtesy of White Rabbit Gallery

I loved the new show at White Rabbit Gallery, 'Down the Rabbit Hole', which I have now seen three times. In particular, one work which has stayed with me is Wu Daxin's 'Ashley's Heart', one of his series of sculptures made of bronze tubes connected to a fridge compressor so that they freeze anew over the course of each day. There is something so lyrical and fragile about the tracery of bronze forms casting shadows on the wall like the bare branches of a winter tree, with the drip, drip of the melting ice pooling on the floor below.

The works by the Taiwanese Luxury Logico Artist Collective were also quite wonderful, and it is interesting to speculate about the very different sensibility that informs the works from Taiwan in the collection. Less of the pervasive sense of vertigo and anxiety resulting from the dramatic pace of change in Mainland China, I suspect.

Luxury Logico Artist Collective, Solar, 2011, lights, sound, computer
Image reproduced courtesy of White Rabbit Gallery 

I have written more extensively about this  show in The Art Life

My next post will be from Beijing in less than a fortnight. Tai hao le!