BLANKgallery is delighted to announce, in collaboration with the Italian creative art space 10 Corso Como and the renowned French Champagne brand Perrier-Jouët, our art party "Marina City" presenting the artist Zhong Yunshu’s in-situ improvision during the fervent annual Shanghai art week. As one of the VIP projects of the West Bund Art & Design Fair, the party will take place at 10 Corso Como Shanghai on 11 November (1717 West Nanjing Road). The artist Zhong Yunshu will ingeniously and exquisitely set her installation into the architectural space of 10 Corso Como.

The title Marina City is derived from an architecture in Chicago: in the 1960s, it was the first reinforced concrete architectural complex in the United States to be constructed with tower cranes. This abstract name is here used to signify the “columns” the artist built with air. The cylinder body, corn-like external structure and a series of extending semi-circular balconies of the Marina City allow the building to have an open and uninterrupted view. In Zhong Yunshu’s installation, the use of spherical mirror could be seen as a way to echo with the multiple viewpoints of Marina City. The balloon-columns filled with air occupy certain existing space, which makes the latter become invisible, nevertheless, they would not transform the structure of the entire space. The installation’s Chinese title Stone City, however, is exactly the opposite of what is shown here: Classical stone columns from the past have become transformed in their future - at this moment, in this space - this temporary structure of a buoyant city,  into balloon-columns - some sorts of lightsome support.

BLANKgallery was honored to participate in the "Genius Tent" unit of the West Bank Expo from November 9 to 12, 2017 and present the works of artists Cai Zebin, Li Tingwei, Pu Yingwei, Shen Han, Wu Xinmo, Xie Kan, Xie Yi, Zheng Mengzhi, Zhong Yunshu and Haffendi Anuar.