Yang Fudong's Australia exhibition marks a move into digital filmmaking
Deep in a dark Melbourne basement, far beneath downtown Federation Square, the video installations of renowned Chinese contemporary artist Yang Fudong play in a loop. It's an exhibition that Yang hopes will help stimulate new opportunities for China's up-and-coming artists to show their works to the world.
It gives new meaning to the term underground cinema. Deep in a dark Melbourne basement, far beneath downtown Federation Square, the video installations of renowned Chinese contemporary artist Yang Fudong play in a loop.
It's an exhibition that Yang hopes will help stimulate new opportunities for China's up-and-coming artists to show their works to the world.
"Their audience should not be limited to China. I want audiences from around the world to be able to experience Chinese art," says Yang, 43, adding that this year, finance permitting, he hopes to start making feature films.
The underground space in which "Yang Fudong: Filmscapes" is screening is no ordinary basement. Four of his works are being presented underground at Melbourne's purpose-built Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
The specially commissioned The Coloured Sky: New Women II - which continues from New Woman I, a Toronto Film Festival commission - is his first digital work, marking a departure from his use of black-and-white celluloid film. The five-channel hyperrealist piece has startling colours.