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- Fang Lu is an artist.
ROOM SERVICE (group)
OVERVIEW
Date | ... closedSep 26, 2009 - Oct 16, 2009 |
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Venue(s) |
Belief Tree Xian City Textile City Art District Walker Boutique Hotel |
Curator(s) | Mathieu Borysevicz |
Artist(s) | Ai Xudong, Mathieu Borysevicz, Cang Xin, Fang Lu, He Xiangyu, Lin Yilin, Wang Ningde |
Organizer(s) |
Walker Boutique Hotel |
Co-organizers |
Belief Tree Xian City Textile City Art District |
EXHIBITION SYNOPSIS
Room ServiceRoom Service is show that brings together the work of seven diverse but dynamic artists across two unlikely spaces – a hotel and a renovated factory - in China’s oldest city, Xi’an. From emerging artists to midcareer legends to a token foreign artist, the participants in this show all reflect an ability work contextually within these sites.
The Walker Boutique Hotel, a new “art hotel” chain will celebrate the opening of its first venue in Xi’an. For this occasion each artist will transform one room of this chic hotel into an unforgettable art experience. Using installation, photography, film, performance and other means of intervention the notion of art as a service industry will be explored, as well as the psychological space of the hotel itself - as a site where the private and public are seamlessly interweaved. The entire hotel operation, including its staff, guests and kitchen, will be incorporated into these “room services.”
The second venue will be held in the more traditional warehouse space of Xi’an’s premiere art complex, Textile City Art District. Here artists will install large-scale works that play on the specificity of the building’s Socialist industrial setting or on greater Xi’an as a historical space. Other works reflect the notion of mass media induced homogenization or the de-contextualization of loaded materials, as well as other notions of time and place.
By presenting cutting edge contemporary works in two distinct settings this event questions the notion of ‘exhibition’ itself in the context of today’s contemporary arts.
Please join us for the opening celebration on September 26th 2009 2:30PM at the Textile City Art District in Xi’an.
ON-SCENE (20)
MISCELLANEOUS (35)

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Artist(s) | Ai Xudong, Mathieu Borysevicz, Cang Xin, Fang Lu, He Xiangyu, Lin Yilin, Wang Ningde |
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Shot on | Sep 26, 2009 |

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Artist(s) | Ai Xudong, Mathieu Borysevicz, Cang Xin, Fang Lu, He Xiangyu, Lin Yilin, Wang Ningde |
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Shot on | Sep 26, 2009 |

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Artist(s) | Mathieu Borysevicz, Cang Xin, Fang Lu, He Xiangyu, Lin Yilin, Wang Ningde |
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Shot on | Sep 26, 2009 |