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Zhou Jun - Bird's Nest Project
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1- Zhou Jun (b. 1965), Bird’s Nest No. 3, 2006
Photograph, 50 x 76 cm, 120 x 186 cm (20" x 30", 47" x 73")

2- Zhou Jun, China Central Television, 2008
Photograph, 200 x 120 cm, 300 x 120 cm (79" x 112", 118" x 112")

Why do Beijing's new constructions, erected for the Olympics, drape themselves in red on Zhou Jun's black and white photographs?

Perhaps because red, just like these Olympics, is associated in China with a ceremonial event, the radical power of a Communist government - and shed blood.

 


Zhou Jun – Bird’s Nest Project

August 7 through 29, 08

Rossi & Rossi Ltd gallery, London

Current exhibitions' page on www.rossirossi.com