Galerie Urs Meile Beijing is honored to announce the opening of Diary of a Madman, the latest exhibition by Cheng Ran (*1981 in Inner Mongolia, China) at our new space in 798. This exhibition can be seen as Cheng’s latest cinematic experiment in his quest to understand the essence of language & speech, Otherness, aspects of Psychogeography, and the relationship between time and the urban environment.
Diary of a Madman is an ongoing project which began in 2016. It currently consists of three parts,
each filmed in a different location, that have gradually come together to form the artist’s own “urban cantos.” Cheng Ran has carefully divided the space and devised a meandering exhibition path to present the three segments of the main work, New York, Hong Kong and Jerusalem. In addition, the television painting DD-MM-YYYY serves as a preface, while a large wall mural of production photographs titled The Ear Bums, and several pieces of installation works, bring the viewer through the pages of Cheng Ran’s diary in a powerful visual experience.

OPENING : Saturday, September 9, 4 - 6.30pm, the artist will be present.

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