The Three Gorges Project: Paintings by Liu Xiaodong
Asian Art Museum: April 7–July 16, 2006
Newly Displaced Population, by Liu Xiaodong (China, b. 1963). Oil on canvas. Courtesy of Mr. Cahyadi Kuma la Kwee.
China's Three Gorges Dam: 26 million cubic meters of concrete, 395 square miles, 250,000 workers, and millions resettled. The Three Gorges Project features a series of monumental paintings by one of China's leading artists chronicling the Three Gorges Dam project, a massive 17-year effort to dam the Yangzi River. Liu Xiaodong has shown an intense interest in documenting the China emerging today, and his aim as a painter is to capture the psychic landscape of a changing society. ...
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