Like many aspects of life in Beijing, the art scene here brings us more in touch with this sense of China's past and future colliding. Artists make us take a look at what it all means — with humor and irreverence, with cynicism, and often with playful examination.
The 798 Dashanzi Art District is the hub of Beijing's gallery network. Bauhaus-style factory buildings have been converted into wonderful exhibition spaces.
Technology and nature; progress and its impact; being a unified people while embracing new friends in the world; a blending and clashing of ideologies are all represented in the works we saw.
Among my favorite work was by these two brothers who use great humor and irreverence to have fun with the past.