Performance artists playing violin. For more photos visit: flickr.com
I've heard about Weihai Lu for quite some time but just assumed it would be a mini version of Moganshan Lu - commercial, cliche and full of badly done Mao concept pieces (I know that he's a huge figure in Chinese history but really, the whole revolution meets capitalism motif was new and edgy like ten years ago). I went last weekend for the open artist studios and was very pleasantly surprised to find a quirky little warren of art spaces exhibiting some pretty fresh pieces. While, in all honesty, a fair amount was just okay or even derivative (it IS Shanghai after all), the most important thing is that not one
large, pink laughing head was to be seen.
That fact alone, makes Weihai 696 worth going back to.
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