From Friday January 16 to Sunday February 29, 2004
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“Défilé (Parade)” is a work consisting of a runway about fifteen meters long, on which are arranged 13 resin casts that are three-dimensional reproductions of images and figures taken from Chinese military propaganda publications.
Introduction
The work was produced in the fall of 2000 for an exhibition at the Deitch Project in New York, at the height of political, diplomatic, and military tensions between China and the United States following the spy plane incident. Both spectacular and deeply critical in scope, this work has never been shown in France. As the Wang Du Parade has been staged in Rennes, Lyon, Toulouse, Paris, Nantes, and Vancouver, it has been enriched with existing works and expanded to include new productions, such as the famous “Space-Time Tunnel” and the steel sculptures made from crumpled newspapers (“World Markets”). In Rennes, the sculpture series We’re Smoking Them Out! is on display, featuring U.S. President George W. Bush engaged in weight training at various scales.
