Zhou Yan Contemporary Chinese Art Archive 周彦当代中国艺术档案
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Date
1994
Format
Slide
Materials
Ink, milk, bottles, feed tubes, steel drums
Description
“Visitors to Wang Gongxin’s Open Studio were afforded both the pleasure of an unusual olfactory experience, and the more unusual opportunity to don rubber boots and wade ankle-deep in ink. The swill covering the floor of his studio formed the “Yang” to the inverse “Ying”-the whitewashed ceiling above from which were suspended five rows of inverted bottles filled with the whiteness of another fluid, milk. All bottles were connected to feed tubes -giving the room an unavoidable association with a modern dairy -which drew directly from larger bottles concealed in the ceiling cavity above. The lower end of each tube descended downwards to hang fractionally above the surface of a mixture of milk and ink caught in halved steel drums” (Smith, Karen. (1994). “Wang Gongxin - Open Studio.” Exhibition Reviews.) (Russ, Hannah ‘18)
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