'Art Beijing' opens with a multicultural scene

New Zealand-based artist John Reynolds' text-bricks artwork is on display at the 2010 Art Beijing contemporary art fair in Beijing on April 29, 2010. [Photo: CRIENGLISH.com/Xie Tingting]

 

 

This May Day holiday, you can travel to Shanghai for the World Expo, or visit Beijing for a mini world expo of art.

The 5th annual Art Beijing contemporary art fair, one of China's major art occasions, opened Thursday with a VIP preview. Asian and Western art lovers crowded the Agricultural Exhibition Center, where 70 art galleries from as many as 18 countries and regions were exhibiting.

Artwork shown at the fair is diversified, offering a sense of multiculturalism.

Dozens of palm-size bricks form an eye-catching display inside the space of Starkwhite, a gallery hailing from Auckland, New Zealand. The work looks like a finished building toy we used to play with those wooden cubes in our childhood. Each column, colored either red, black, green, pink, grey, blue or yellow, consists of several brick canvases which are printed with English and Chinese words. For example, one column reads, "I don't speak any Chinese. Do you speak English? Pretty good. Not bad."

This work was created by New Zealand-based artist John Reynolds during his two-week residency in Beijing prior to the Art Beijing fair.

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