The Los Angeles Times writes about Ai Weiwei’s video installation, “Beijing: Chang’an Boulevard,” which is going to make its U.S. premiere at Morono Kiang Gallery in LA:
Traveling the entire length of this major east-west artery in Beijing, the artist stopped at 50-meter intervals (about 164 feet) to record minute-long takes on digital video. Each fixed shot captured a random aspect of daily street life — traffic jams, road construction, looming office towers and (this being China) bicycles galore. The result is a 10-hour-plus videologue that charts the blood flow of Beijing through its supermodern heart to its impoverished extremities. [Full text]
[Image: Artist Ai Weiwei, via archinect.com]
