Zhang Xiaotao’s Passage (2007).Image courtesy of the artist and ChinaSquare, New York.
Artist Zhang Xiaotao Says Wear a Seat Belt
In Passage, Chinese painter Zhang Xiaotao demonstrates what — in all its starkly unapologetic reality — would have happened if Will Smith’s Agent J had pressed the red button. Xiaotao’s work is part of the group exhibition “Semiosis,†open as of yesterday at Chelsea’s ChinaSquare gallery. —Rachel Wolff