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OperaPresented by Chinese Contemporary January 25, 2007- March 3, 2007Reception: January 25, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmWu JunyongWu Junyong's animation DVD works are the most exciting creations to come from the younger generation of contemporary Chinese artists. The combination of image, sound and text combine to give a pulsating vision of newly rich, urban Chinese society. Just as the great contemporary painters of the previous generation of the Chinese avant garde captured the zeitgeist of China in the 1990s, Wu Junyong captures it of wealthy China in 2005/06. Wait Us Rich, 2005, the artist's first work available for acquisition by collectors, is a young man's take on nouveau riche society. The artist conveys that world's excesses, energy, brashness and power. The images that make up the DVD in themselves are sufficient to portray the desires of new money but the combination with music, voice and text quadruples the power of the message. Just as this newly wealthy society with its great capacity for acquisition is aggressively continuing to push forward, grow and succeed at the fastest possible rate, the multimedia nature of Wu Junyong's work is equally intense, resonating with rhythm, absolute conviction and energy. The animation images show us what the new money wants and has. The audio and text accompaniment forces on us the determination that has made this this new social class what it is and what it will continue to be - a unstoppable force.
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