… During the Cultural Revolution I was a child, but I was deeply influenced by what happened, and our work shows many of the things which happened at that time,” says Gao Qiang. In the cafe that they use to show their work, he is toying with a top-end Canon camera in front of a lithograph-style print of Barack Obama.
It’s not all about Mao, and they do a lot of other great work, but it’s the work about the chairman, who died in 1976, that stands out. In one of the brothers’ most accomplished pieces, The Forever Unfinished Building No 4, there are images of migrant workers, prostitutes, dissidents, Kim Jong-il, police, Nazis, Porsches, Olympic stars, astronauts – basically all the components of the ongoing dialogue about China’s metamorphosis, executed in the style of Antoni Gaudí and Jeff Koons, with a splash of Jake and Dinos Chapman.
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