Xu Zhen eternity vs evolution
Nov 01, 2020
2 minutes
SOO-MIN SHIM
n her 2009 article “The Big Issue,” critic Carol Yinghua Lu decried the trend toward large-scale spectacle in contemporary Chinese art driven by market forces that favored “visual extravaganzas” over criticality. Over a decade on, Lu’s concerns materialized at Xu Zhen’s “eternity vs evolution” at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), the artist’s first major solo exhibition in the country, which saw some of the biggest-scale works that
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