Yang Zhenzhong

Yang Zhenzhong is a Photographer and Video artist who lives in works in Shanghai, China. Naomi and I found a several of his works in the 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art that is currently on in the Queensland Museum of Modern Art in Brisbane.

Tonight I found the artist's website (Chinese Language site here), and I wanted to go ahead and post a link to the set of images from which the image on the left is a part.

The Queensland Gallery has this image listed as Light and easy no.15 - while the artist has it listed as Light as Fuck #15, which serves I think to show that the series has an angry or aggressive edge that the family oriented museum friendly name softens too much. The work is clearly anti establishment, and makes some interesting statements about the society that artist inhabits, but in a way clever and playful enough to make it poetic, and light hearted. I really loved these works and wanted to share links to whoever might be interested. In my experience here in the US we get far too little contemporary Asian art, and it was enlightening to visit a well funded museum, albeit one closer to Asia, that was taking Asian art as seriously as the Queensland Museum of Modern Art has with this show.