Qi Zhilong Exhibition
Pace Prints Chelsea
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This presentation will feature a new screenprint along with didactic state proofs, a new ukiyo-e woodcut, as well as an original painting which informs Qi’s work. Qi Zhilong’s work gained international fame around 1994 with his "Consumer Icons" series, rendering a superficial and shallow pop culture, forecasting an onset of consumption in China. However, by 1995 Qi began working on a series with more depth; his portraits of beautiful young women in uniform. These elegant compositions of females serve as reminders that in Mao’s time, portraits of this size were only of the Chairman himself. By not denoting the name of the sitters (who are often models, actresses, and celebrities) Qi lessens the value of the person the ideology underlying it; the worship of present and past idols. By painting contemporary sitters in past uniform, Qi Zhilong blends consumer attitudes of today with nostalgia for Mao, as the uniform becomes a dual symbol of the centralization of power in communism and the appeal of ideological liberalism.
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Schedule
from October 08, 2009 to October 31, 2009
Closing Reception on 2009-10-31 from 16:00 to 18:00