NYAB Event - Xu Zhen, Folkert de Jong and Martha Colburn Exhibition

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At James Cohan Gallery
Media: Sculpture, Installation, Film

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James Cohan Gallery opens their fall season with three separate exhibitions. Chinese conceptualist Xu Zhen will transform the front gallery into a replica of a Shanghai convenience store, as he did previously for Art Basel Miami Beach 2007. With all packages for sale at Chinese prices, yet empty of their contents, Zhen's installation is a project in which the rules of the game for both art and the global market are—seemingly—collapsed.

In the second gallery, Dutch sculptor Folkert de Jong will present his sculptural tableau, The Shooting…At Watou; 1st July 2006, originally created as a site-specific installation for the Belgian village of Watou on the occasion of their annual summer poetry and art festival. The sculpture references Goya's famous 1814 painting, El 2 de Mayo de 1808, in its depiction of a gruesome execution, however the work departs from the famous painting with de Jong's characteristically absurdist twist on historical events and his macabre humor.

New York artist Martha Colburn's fast-paced hand-made 16 mm film animation, Myth Labs, 2008, will be on view in gallery three. Colburn uses hand drawn images, magazine cut-outs and historical illustrations to create a modern day parable about the evils of our society from drug abuse, to religious extremism and racial tensions to celebrity worship.

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