Grinding
Yang Mushi
杨牧石
Production date
2013-2016
Object Detail
Media
wood, black spray lacquer, aluminium plate
Measurements
installed 55 x 510 x 780 cm
Notes
Hand-cutting, shaping and sanding the hundreds of objects in this dark tableau was an exercise in “insanity”, Yang Mushi says. He undertook it as a way to examine his place in a larger insanity: Chinese society. The neatly arrayed shapes speak of isolation, anger, pointless rules and grinding toil. But over the months of labour, the artist’s feelings changed. For all its hard edges and barbaric spikes, his meaningless anti-landscape has an air of harmony and calm
Accession number
2016.029