Shi Xinning, Duchamp Retrospective Exhibition in China, 2000-2001.
石心寧，《杜尚回顧展在中國》。
This painting is a surreal juxtaposition of Marcel Duchamp’s urinal readymade Fountain and Mao. Shi Xinning’s work is based on an original photograph featuring the Chairman’s visit to an industrial product fair. His placement of the leader within an unrealistic context is a play on history writing and presents his exploration of an alternate China. Shi’s artistic practice often focuses on themes pertaining to the Cultural Revolution. He began to incorporate Mao into western historical events in his paintings, in a socialist realism manner, during the early 2000s.
