Renovation – Relations of Production

In the early winter of 2005, Long March expanded into a new 600 square meter space with ７ meter tall ceilings, bringing the total Long March Space to 1500 square meters. Long March director, Lu Jie, hired renowned installation specialist and renovation artist Shanzi to renovate the new Long March Space. At the same time, he also invited Shanzi to curate an exhibition revolving around the topic of “installation” to open up the new space.

Since the early ninety’s, Shanzi has been involved with the production of several famous works by artists, and has developed and grown together with them. Afterwards, because of his superb work in renovating the old Long March Space and helping install exhibition, he quickly achieved recognition within the art world. Today, the commissions for installation and renovation keep on coming, with several important exhibitions having been installed by him. The Long March believes that Shanzi is a vital link in the relations of production in the contemporary Beijing art world. He is an artist as well as a curator who still stubbornly holds the attitude of a contractor. We will see how he fares as a curator.

Before the renovation began, Shanzi invited several artists to examine the new space and put forth their proposals and plans. After compiling all the proposals and determining their difficulty and their production cost, he has divided up the renovation project to different artists. With each proposal acting as both a collective and individual work realized by different artists, the process of renovation turns into a collective art creation. On December 17th 2005, the finishing date of renovation, a newly remodeled Long March Space B will be a completed site for the relations of production.

Curator　　 Shan Zi (Wang Chunshan)

Organizer 　Long March Space
Opening 　　Reception 2005.12.17　15:00

Location 　　Long March Space, 798 art district, Jiuxianqiao Rd. 4#,

　　　　　　　 Chaoyang District Beijing