EXHIBITION: January 19 – February 16, 2008 RECEPTION: Saturday, January 19 from 6 – 8 pm Gallery hours: Wed-Sat, 12 noon - 6 PM The artists in this exhibition live and work in Beijing or Shanghai and are part of a new wave of artists who have taken the art world by storm over the past five years. Featured are the Gao Brothers whose performances and photographs direct our gaze onto the most rapid and profound urbanization and globalization in history. Enormously influenced by the Cultural Revolution (their father was shot during its height after being accused of “bourgeois and intellectual tendencies”) The Gao Brothers’ work is provocative, poignant, poetic and often overtly political. Their photographs have on and off been subjected to censorship for over 15 years. Particularly troublesome to the Chinese authorities is the recurring Mao portrait that has become a cornerstone of their work. MISS MAO, a fiberglass sculpture representing a stylized Mao bust with a Pinocchio nose, which is part of this exhibition, is the latest addition to this growing body of work. The Gao Brothers are currently representing China at Photography Festival in Arles, France.