Xijing Olympics

This is one of the most excellent shows I have seen in Beijing in awhile. Finally some humor! the three artists in this group - Chen Shaoxiong(China), Gim Hongsok (Korea) and Tsuyoshi Ozawa (Japan) - are known collectively as Xijing Men, and clearly, they are having way too much fun.

A few weeks ago during the real festivities they held their own Olympics of sorts at Boers-Li Gallery, using everyday materials and objects. Shown here: fencing (water calligraphy brushes used for morning exercises), Soccer (kicking watermelons around), three person ping-pong match and basketball. Competitions not shown here: the torch relay (a lit cigarette passed along and culminating in a lit chuanr barbeque), shotput (tossing an egg) and my personal favorite, weightlifting (beer bottlecaps affixed to either end of a chopstick and lifted with one finger)...oh the list goes on.

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