Time: 10 am-6 pm
Date: Begins Oct 10th, Until Dec 7th, 2010
Venus: Galerie Paris-Beijing, 798 Art Zone, Dashanzi, 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang district, Beijing
Under the artists' name Ghost of a Dream, Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom started a collaborative project in New York, where the two artists live. After artist’s residencies in Basel and Berlin, Galerie Paris Beijing is pleased to welcome them for the first time to Beijing and present site-specific installations in a solo show entitled Price of Happiness.
A mix of collage and large-scale installation objects, this exhibit takes a look at instant wealth created through the lottery.
Lottery tickets are pasted everywhere, carrying real dreams that mostly disappear just as quickly as they came. They represent fantasies of opulence, which vanish and reappear with each new lottery ticket.
In Price of Happiness, these dreams come alive through artistic compositions of objects, mirrors, photographs and slogans. In a country fascinated by the Western way of life and at a time where universal dreams are associated with consumption frenzy, these artists show us faded dreams and the process which is inherent in this fast easy money game.
Until Dec 7, 10 am-6 pm. Galerie Paris-Beijing, 798 Art Zone, Dashanzi, 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang district, Beijing
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Editor: Susan
Date: Oct 22, 2010