Galerie Urs Meile is pleased to announce the opening of Illegitimate Production, the first solo exhibition by young emerging Chinese artist Yang Mushi (*1989) at our gallery. The exhibition will focus on a series of works using industrial raw materials such as processed wood, foam, and sawdust. By shaping the materials into sculptural forms and covering them with black lacquer, the artist converts the ordinary materials into something violent, fragile and sharp. Through exerting repetitive and long-lasting industrial labor including grinding, subtracting, cutting and eroding on a massive amount of raw materials, Yang Mushi realizes the large scale works conveying a suppressing visual experience and a peculiar feeling of solitude. It triggers contemplations on the legitimacy of industrial production emerging along with the extreme urban development of China in the context of globalization, as well as the oppression and crisis con­fronted by individuals in the rapidly changing society.

OPENING : Saturday, September 3, 4-7pm, the artist will be present.

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