elaine levy projects brussels 2009

I wanna be Chinese

I wanna be Chinese, paintings...

Credit Crunch Fashion / I love you / China *(profited the most of this crisis)

Wo jiao Yu Ren (My name is Rainer), Shanghai 2009 - see video here:

I WANNA BE CHINESE, XIAO EDGAR / FINGER
I WANNA BE CHINESE, XIAO EDGAR / LEFT EAR
I WANNA BE CHINESE, XIAO EDGAR / RIGHT FOOD  
I WANNA BE CHINESE, XIAO EDGAR / POO
Stainless Steel,concept sheet

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see more of my CREDIT CRUNCH FASHION I LOVE NY Tshirt series

creid crunch food - Lenin cheese (porcelain) , 6 month old rottening lenin cheese.. adn other elements

a mixture porcelaine scultpures and real food for- do it yourslef arrangements

see CREDIT CRUNCH MEAL VIENNA

BELOW SOURCE MATERIAL FROM THE SHOW OF ELAINE LEVY... 2009

For about a decade I have been studying Chinese as part of my art work . I have so far accomplished only modest results in spite of more than thousand hours of studies I mostly videotape. Recently, in particular since a general feeling of Western declines and Chinese looming economic superiority seems to become a dominant theme I have come to understand that I wanna be Chinese. Without really knowing what that all means, I would suggest we all should become Chinese. For this show at Elaine Levy Projects I try to address this issue and include sculputres, videos, photographs, painting and works on papers. Similar to the majority of Chinese contemporary art, I also try to be prolific using even 'outsourcing' as a way of artistic productions.

CHINESE MANIFESTO: - A legislative initiative for the EU Parliament to make Chinese a European language and teach it as a second or third foreign language in school equal to English.

Wo jiao Yu Ren / My name is Rainer (rain man)

4 min, Shanghai, April 2009

This video is an "Introduction video" and explains why I had to retake my job as an artist again, even though I had no idea what to do, what to paint... I talk shortly about the fate of A.I.G. where I mad a lot of money before I went bankrupt(Obama even forced me to return my bailout money... we more or less evenly split 65 millions ... which - as you know - wasn't much compared to the 80 billions it received from the government). last but not least, I am also sharing a secret.

see below and here: video

MORE OF THESE CREDIT CRUNCH T-shrits SEE HERE

Basic Chinese, Study Sheet, New York 6/15/2000
Basic Chinese, Study Sheet, New York 6/13/2002
Basic Chinese, Study Sheet, New York 7/20/2004 I
Basic Chinese, Study Sheet, Shanghai 4/8/2009 I
Basic Chinese, Photograph, Shanghai 2009
Basic Chinese, Photograph, Shanghai 2009
Photograph 51 x 61 cm / 20 x 24 inches

see details belo

I wanna be Chinese, painting cityscape 1, 2009
Oil on canvas plus photographs,

I wanna be Chinese, painting landscape 1, 2009
Oil on canvas plus photographs,

more details about the works - and STUDY WORKS DONE IN BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 2009

Please, teach me Chinese, 2009

study sheets, photographs, video - Brussels...

Studying Chinese, (assisted by May), Brussels, September 8, 2009 - 20 x 24 inches (51 x 61 cm)

Basic Chinese, (assisted by May), Brussels, 9/8/2009 I graphite on paper, 9 x 12 inches

Basic Chinese, (assisted by May), Brussels, 9/8/2009 II graphite on paper, 9 x 12 inches

Basic Chinese, (assisted by May), Brussels, 9/10/2009 II graphite on paper, 9 x 12 inches

Basic Chinese, (assisted by Ming Jia), Brussels, 2009 Igraphite on paper, 9 x 12 inches

Basic Chinese, (assisted by Ming Jia), Brussels, 9/10/2009 IV graphite on paper, 9 x 12 inches

Basic Chinese, (assisted by Liu Xuan Yu), Shanghai, 4/6/2009 I graphite on paper, 9 x 12 inches

Basic Chinese, (assisted by Liu Xuan Yu), Shanghai, 4/8/2009 iI graphite on paper, 9 x 12 inches

Basic Chinese, (assisted by Liu Xuan Yu), Shanghai, 4/8/2009 graphite on paper, 9 x 12 inches

Basic Chinese, (assisted by Liu Xuan Yu), Shanghai, 4/6/2009 I graphite on paper, 9 x 12 inches

My First 500 Hours Basic Chinese, 1999 - 2001

Renaissance Society, Chicago

250 vhs tapes in 25 boxes. 500 hours video recordings of my studies of Chinese

see more of it:

BASIC CHINESE (Photographs), 2005

Basic Chinese, Of course, the European team is stronger, 2005

see more photographs:

Reading Mao, Los Angeles, 2007

CHINESE MANIFESTO:

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