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Wu Junyong’s DVD animation works are some of the most exciting creations to come from the younger generation of contemporary Chinese artists. Just as the great contemporary painters of the first generation of the Chinese avant-garde captured the zeitgeist of China in the 90s, Wu Junyong captures it for wealthy China in 2007. Born in 1978, the artist has grown up in a country that is in a continual state of change as it manages its transformation from a closed, severely restricted society to one that is open to the outside and increasingly flexible. It is an explosive situation with opportunities and temptations of many shapes and colors. It is a world thrilling and frightening, surreal and fantastic—the site of the future bathed in the past. |
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Wu Junyong – Opera I, II, III
Wu Junyong’s DVD animation works are some of the most exciting creations to come from the younger generation of contemporary Chinese artists. Just as the great contemporary painters of the first generation of the Chinese avant-garde captured the zeitgeist of China in the 90s, Wu
Junyong captures it for wealthy China in 2007. Born in 1978, the artist has grown up in a country that is in a continual state of change as it manages its transformation from a closed, severely restricted society to one that is open to the outside and increasingly flexible. It is an explosive situation with opportunities and temptations of many shapes and colors. It is a world thrilling and frightening, surreal and fantastic—the site of the future bathed in the past.
The “Opera” series—Opera I, Opera II and Opera III—forms a satirical comment on politics. The series originates from the wholly Chinese context in which Wu Junyong lives and works and has never having left China before January 2007. The artist believes, however, that his comments are extendable to politicians and politics worldwide.
Politicians, like actors or characters on a DVD, perform on a stage.
Their platform for expression and self-promotion serves to expose all the ridicule and human frailty of their situation.
