From Villagevoice:
A first encounter with the paintings of Wei Dong includes a few double takes. You feel an odd displacement, as if you’ve stumbled into an art-history dream where time- traveling European masters, eager to shuck off age-old propriety, are checking out the erotic possibilities of 21st-century China….
Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region but under the rule of China, didn’t escape Mao’s Cultural Revolution, a massive purge of artists and intellectuals intended to rid the country of bourgeois influence. “Mao hated Western art,” Wei says, “and especially hated traditional Chinese landscapes.” His grandfather, a collector of the form, feared arrest by the bullying Red Guards and burned almost everything. “Just a few pieces left,” Wei says with sadness….[Full Text]
– See also Wei Dong’s works here
