Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave
773.702.0200
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Chen Qiulin, still from Rhapsody on Farewell, Courtesy Smart Museum
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Opens Thursday Oct 2, 2008 (5:30–7:30pm)
Oct 2, 2008 – Jan 25, 2009
Tuesdays–Wednesdays (10am–4pm)
Thursdays (10am–8pm)
Fridays (10am–4pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (11am–5pm)
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China's Three Gorges Dam has become a dark muse for many artists. One of the largest engineering efforts in history, it embodies China's hunger for development while speaking to humankind's steady desire to bend the world to its will, no matter the consequences. The Smart Museum's Displacement features four contemporary Chinese artists — Yun-Fei Ji, Liu Xiaodong, Zhuang Hui, and Chen Qiulin — who ponder the dam's heavy toll. The exhibition looks past the favored trends in an art market hot for Chinese exports, instead representing the country's major branches of art-making: realist oil painting, traditional ink painting, and conceptual photography, performance, and video.
