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The Complete Metropolis
Directed by Fritz Lang
Thu, Sep 2 7:00 PM Fri, Sep 3 7:00 PM Sat, Sep 4 7:00 PM Sun, Sep 5 5:00 PM Mon, Sep 6 2:00 PM
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Jurassic Age
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On view through October 21, 2007 at the Caroline Wiess Law Building
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Sui Jianguo, Chinese, Jurassic Age (during installation at the MFAH), 2006
Collection of Robert, Jereann, and Holland Chaney
© Sui Jianguo, courtesy Chinese Contemporary Gallery
Photo credit: George Ramirez Photography
Jurassic Age
Comes to Houston
Sui Jianguo´s Jurassic Age is one of the most celebrated icons of today´s Chinese Pop movement. Installed in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition RED HOT - Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, this work can be seen at the front of the Caroline Wiess Law Building.
Jurassic Age is part of the artist´s Made in China series, which are based upon mass-produced toys. While playful, the dinosaur can also be understood as personifying the unruly economic power China now commands over world markets. Collector Robert Chaney has stated: "The cage can be viewed as the prior confinement of forty years of communist rule, against which the entrepreneurial spirit raged to break out of. It can also be seen as the ubiquitous shipping container, symbolizing China´s subsequent emergence as a leader in global trade."
Born in 1956, Sui maintains a studio in Beijing. He was originally trained in the Social Realist tradition promoted during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), but he is now one of the foremost artists of a new movement of "Chinese Pop." Sui has commented on this work: "The reason I enlarged the toys to such an enormous size is to highlight the political economic system behind them. Dinosaur toys are designed by some company from a Western country, and produced in China, then commercially distributed to the whole globe. It is the result of transnational capitalist production."
This installation has been made possible through the generosity of Houston collectors Robert, Jereann, and Holland Chaney.
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