Video: Postmodern China in the installation of Song Dong Para-Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2011
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In the minds of the majority of the inhabitants of the Earth, China is still a backward, poor, totalitarian country, where nothing at all that is the norm in Western countries is allowed. As if to counterbalance this opinion, a Chinese artist acts Song Dongwho created installation of Para-Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2011, which examines past, present and future of the Celestial Empire.
At this year's Venice Biennale, works by Chinese artists are presented not only in a specially created China pavilion, but also at other venues. One of these "outside-the-pavilion" works can be mentioned the installation Para-Pavilion, created by a Chinese artist named Song Dong. This installation occupies an entire huge hall. And its main theme is the past, present and future of China, which in the Celestial Empire itself actively intersect and interact with each other, creating an amazing world, an amazing society, unlike any other on planet Earth.
The main part of the Para-Pavilion installation is a labyrinth of old European-made furniture: wardrobes, dressing tables, secretaries, etc., which were in vogue before they mastered their own production in China. Son Dong suggested that other artists, whose work is presented at the Venice Biennale 2011, use one of the elements of this labyrinth for their own artistic purposes. This should symbolize China's openness to the world, to all its best and most creative manifestations.
And around this postmodern labyrinth, Son Don has established architectural forms typical of old China: small wooden dwelling houses, a pagoda. It symbolizes the old world that still holds its ground and surrounds the islets on which the New China, the China of the Future is being built!
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