HARMONIOUS FUTURE URBAN BLUEPRINT
solo exhibition by T H A N O S Z A K O P O U L O S
Opening 12th of November 2007 h18:00
STUDIO B, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT)
En' ping road, Overseas Chinese Town, Shenzhen, China exhibition viewing on appointment only / info: (+86) 15814698973 Chinese cities occasionally grant the foreigner a little of the 'Blade Runner' thrills they fantasise about. Hong Kong is an obvious example. But most parts of the perpetually new megacities in mainland China— like Shenzhen, Hong Kong's conjoined twin— are more akin to the counterfeit Chinese Louis Vuittons and fake Chinese Rolexes that litter their streets and tumble from their little stalls. They're dishonest duplicates, visibly coming apart at the seams. There's a peculiarly Chinese form of accelerated entropy. The moment anything is built by China's vast army of manual labourers, it begins a rapid descent into a state of grimy disrepair. Meanwhile many urban citizens live provisional, precarious and strangely rural lives under the feet of the brand-new high rise ruins whose interiors they'll never see. The cities of China have grown up fast, but the other part of the deal is that they plan to fall down again the moment everyone's backs are turned.
Catalogue credits:
curated by: Huang Yang & Thanos Zakopoulos; text: Alistair Gentry; translation: Chen CaiXia
中文有翻译内容，我不写了，这个希腊鬼子受《银翼杀手》那部电影的影响很大，在这个介绍里面特别提到并介绍了这部电影，称《Blade runner》为有史以来最具影响力的科幻电影之一。(可惜我没有看过。)
他称这部电影以黑色电影的侦探片拍法来探讨一个哲学命题----人类与复制人的关系，未来世界的美工设计十分出色，堪称是设计师的梦幻。
展览展示了中国很多的工地、工棚，以蓝色为基调的棚子和围挡，而蓝色代表着商业。
中国的城市飞速发展，然而与此同时自我破坏！
“银翼杀手Blade Runner”中的狂妄自大的复制人的制造商都曾说：凡事要节制和谐，那样才能持续持久。