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Power Station of Art, 200 Huayuangang Rd, Huangpu District, Shanghai, China

11th Shanghai Biennale: Why Not Ask Again?

Matts Leiderstam, Gift of Tears, Oil painting made after Marco Palmezzano, “Christ Carrying the Cross”, 1534, and bird-scope with refitted viewfinder on a Manfrotto tripod; printed posters and oak table, 2016

The 11th Shanghai Biennale is a dense and vastly-scaled staging that melds Chinese science fiction, Bengali parables, the principles of traditional South Asian miniature painting, turbulent shifts in political thought and a scrutiny of the transportation of mass information through technologies, screens and devices. Review by Alex Hetherington.

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Yuz Museum, 35 Fenggu Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China

OVERPOP

Tan Tian, installation view at Yuz Museum Shanghai, 2016

OVERPOP focuses on a group of artists who are responding to the impact of the Internet on the visual environment. Their work is more than post-internet, however: it incorporates the historical tradition of Pop Art in addition to responding to the acceleration of digital imagery.

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