Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, California, United States
24 March - 14 June 2009
Wang Qingsong is an important contemporary Chinese artist known for his large-scale photographs which explore the political, social, and cultural issues of a rapidly changing China.
The Hammer is pleased to present Wang’s newest work and his first video entitled Skyscraper (2008, 35mm, 5 minutes).
Over the course of a month, employing 30 scaffolding workers from the poor countryside outside of Beijing, Wang built a 35m high “skyscraper.”
Using stop-action 35mm film he captures the entire process but without the workers visible.
Viewers will be witness to a gleaming golden structure rising, as if by magic, out of a barren landscape reaching for the ever-shifting blue sky.
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