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The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project

Name: The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project
Start: 2011-03-26T08:00:00+00:00
End: 2011-04-27T17:00:00+00:00
Location: 101 Haifang Lu, near Changhua Lu, Shanghai 200041, China 中国上海市静安区海防路101号（近昌化路）

March 26, 2011 - April 27, 2011

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Start:: March 26, 2011-8:00 am
End:: April 27, 2011-5:00 pm

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101 Haifang Lu, near Changhua Lu, Shanghai 200041, China 中国上海市静安区海防路101号（近昌化路）

101 Haifang Lu, near Changhua Lu,
Shanghai, Shanghai 200041 China

Koen Vanmechelen will be bringing to ART LABOR, from March 26th to April 25th, this worldwide experimental and ongoing project with which the artist hopes to develop hybrid chickens. Just ahead of his solo exhibition in Venice during the 54th Biennale this Summer, he is kindly showing us images, both photographic and painted, of the latest generation on this 12-year quest. Photographs, paintings, installation and chickens.

Crossbreeds clearly play an essential role in Vanmechelen’s work, not only in chickens but also in materials and disciplines. Topical themes such as genetic manipulation, cloning, globalisation and multiculturalism are found throughout this fascinating work. Vanmechelen likes to describe his work in Hegelian terms: thesis, antithesis and synthesis. The chicken and the egg are a metaphor for the human race and art.