Again, for me, some of the most exciting work came from the Chinese. Michael Goedhuis of Goedhuis Contemporary, whose galleries in New York, London and Beijing focus on Chinese art of all types, offered some wonderful, emotional eye candy. Zheng Lianjie's "Binding the Lost Souls: Memory Loss, 1993" was a striking work with a red scarf covered head dominating a view of a section of the Great Wall. Ann Tucker, photography curator for the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and I admired the work together.
The Chinese are also using Photoshop, or its Chinese equivalent to manipulate images. Goedhuis also showed some of this work here, including Cui Xiuwen's popular anime-styled photographs of multiple images of the same Chinese girl. I particularly liked one called Angel No.4, but I believe it is now sold out. Another image manipulator was Xing Danwen, whose Urban Ficion series made it difficult to tell what was real and what was created from virtual pixels.
Goedhuis also displayed his Chinese paintings and larger photographs in a show entitled "The Young Mandarins, 2006" in the elegant Mandarin Hotel lobby during the week. Several major works sold, including a large painting, "Chinese Portrait", by Feng Zhengjie for a reported $50,000.
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