Gestural or minimal; isolated or grouped, written,
painted,
filmed or constructed, the components marking this alien culture's individual extremes now flow together, like Chen Zhen's (Precipitous Parturition, 1999), a 50 - foot - long inner - tube dragon that connects the rotunda, into a polymath aesthetic
unified by one longing, one need.
The disparate spaces he imagines in his
paintings, drawings, sculptures, and
films are
unified by an uncanny sense of dislocation and an often unsettling beauty.