Yang Yongliang: Silent Valley - A Wolf and Landmines, 2012Epson UltraGiclee print on Hahnemuhle photo39 1/2 x 78 3/4 inchesEdition of 7Image courtesy of the artist and RH Contemporary Art.
Twelve artists, all based in Beijing or Shanghai, offer their implicit response to the oft-asked question “what’s next in China?” The selections cover a wide range of mediums, including light (Li Hui), stop-action animation (Qiu Anxiong), painting (Yan Bing), photography (Yang Yongliang) and sculptural installation (Gao Weigang). Overall, the works tend to be darkly subdued and more formalist than socially engaged-a clear contrast to the Pop parodies and shock art of earlier post-Mao waves.