{"id":2272,"date":"2013-03-18T09:47:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T13:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2013-03-18T09:47:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T13:47:30","slug":"look-closely-at-these-chinese-landscapes-which-are-really-photos-of-landfills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/03\/18\/look-closely-at-these-chinese-landscapes-which-are-really-photos-of-landfills\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Closely At These Chinese Landscapes, Which Are Really Photos Of Landfills"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The artist Lao Yu disguises pictures of China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s environmental problems in the tropes of traditional Chinese art.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Landscape paintings have a rich history in China, but for many westerners who aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fluent in the tradition (read: many of us), there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s maybe a tendency to look them with a certain myopia–to see them as tropes or emblems of exotica, or simply to fail to give them the attention they deserve. But the work of contemporary Chinese artist Yao Lu<\/a> demands that we look closely, lest we miss what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actually there.<\/p>\n

From the right vantage point, the images in Yao\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s “New Landscapes<\/a>” series bear a striking similarity to classic Chinese landscapes, from their wispy clouds floating between mountain peaks, right down to the presence of traditional red “appreciation seals<\/a>,” small stamps that historically functioned as signatures for artists and studios. But those bucolic settings are in fact digitally altered composite photographs of mounds of garbage<\/a> that the artist has covered with green mesh. That pastoral hillside? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more like a landfill. That babbling brook? A littered roadside.<\/p>\n

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The artist Lao Yu disguises pictures of China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s environmental problems in the tropes of traditional Chinese art. Landscape paintings have a rich history in China, but for many westerners who aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fluent in the tradition (read: many of us), there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s maybe a tendency to look them with a certain myopia–to see them as tropes or … <\/p>\n

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