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 WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART PRESENTS: ZHAN WANG: URBAN LANDSCAPES | WILLIAMSTOWN | MASSACHUSETTS This provocative and stimulating installation by Beijing-based sculptor Zhan Wang features a miniaturized mountain city aglow in a surreal aura of light. Expect the unexpected: the skyscrapers and buildings are formed using stainless steel pots and pans and other seemingly demure utensils, artificial stainless steel rock sculptures flank the city in austere silence. The effect of this constructed metropolis is mesmerizing; however, in his installation, Wang seeks to question the relationship between modern cities in China, the continuing project of Westernized urbanization and, hence, the subsequent demolition of Chinese tradition. Zhan Wang (Chinese, b. 1962) Urban Landscape, 2003; stainless steel, garden rocks, pots, pans, eating utensils, mirror, dry ice machine; Installation view Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye   More info: www.wcma.org/exhibitions/06/0706_ZhangWang.shtml |
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