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Inside Out -- New Chinese Art

GENG JIANYI
The Second Situation, Nos. 1-4, 1987

Collection of Uli and Rita Sigg.
Geng's work -- of a friend's grimacing face -- is painted in the "gray humor" style adopted by the members of Guangzhou's Pool Society in the mid-'80s. The group's main concern, the breakdown of conventional relationships of family and society, is expressed in their absurdist imagery realized in colorless palettes and in their clinical dissection of otherwise overlooked details of daily life.

The world's largest collection of contemporary Chinese art, on display at Hong Kong's Museum of Art, explores the relationship between globalization and local cultural identity in a highly original way. Ends Nov. 8

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