‘Christian Dior and Chinese Artists’, which opened November 15 at Beijing’s Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, is an exhibit of recent Dior pieces by John Galliano and original Christian Dior creations, the show also features specially commissioned works by top Chinese artists.
Li Songsong’s 23-feet high Lady Dior Bag is made out of interlaced fluorescent tubes; Wang Qingsong has created an epic Last Supper featuring beautiful fashion models in new Galliano outfits and the artist himself as Jesus in hospital pyjamas. There’s also a recreation of the Dior atelier in white porcelain by the ceramicist Liu Jianhua, and a ten feet high painting of Galliano by graffiti artist Zhang Dali (whose graffiti tag is ‘AK 47′).
For ‘Christian Dior and Chinese Artists’ Lu Hao makes a huge architectural installation out of Plexiglas that houses the ‘muguet,’ the iconic Dior flower. Lu Hao is famous for using his architectural pieces to comment on the real estate scams that go on in China, where buildings will go up very quickly once the finance is in place but the buildings remain half finished and empty of residents. Wang Qingsong’s Last Supper is also situated in a mock-up of such a building. The artists want to celebrate luxury but also draw attention to injustice.
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