James Cohan Gallery
533 W 26th St
212.714.9500
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Xu Zhen, 8848-1.86, Courtesy James Cohan
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Feb 2, 2008 – Mar 8, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
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Note: Note: There is an opening reception Sat Feb 2 (6-8pm).
A masterful obfuscator of facts and images, Xu Zhen (in his artworks, at least) has waged armed assaults on China's neighboring countries with remote-controlled toy armies and physically attacked Kofi Annan. The Shanghai-based artist's latest work, It, is the centerpiece in James Cohan's main gallery — a miniscule dirt sculpture that, when viewed through a microscope, reveals an image of Armstrong's famous footprint on the moon. In the back, Xu Zhen's most notorious project, 8848-1.86, documents his and his cohorts' purported trip to the top of Mt. Everest. Once there, they remove 1.86 meters (his height) from the mountain's peak, complicating an ongoing debate between the US and China about Everest's exact height.
