Chinese Studies

Call Number
CHI0097

2005年，中国奉节。画家刘小东前往三峡地区创作油画《温床》，十二名拆迁工人成为他写生的模特，这座有两千年历史的城市因三峡工程的建设而即将消逝，画家也在与模特的相处中被现实征服。2006年，泰国曼谷。《温床》的第二部分在曼谷进行,刘小东请来十二位热带女性为她们写生, 炎热的城市让女人们昏昏欲睡，唯有地上的水果鲜艳依旧。画家因体力的付出而渐感劳累，女人们却挣开眼合唱一曲欢快的歌。两个城市都有河流经过，奔腾向前绝不回头。

Filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke records an artist at work as well as the changing landscape of China in this documentary. Painter Liu Xiao-dong, who is well known for his large canvases and his leading role in China's "Cynical Realist" movement, travels to the city of Fengjie to work on a project, using people who will lose their homes to the massive Three Gorges Dam as models. Nearly a million will be displaced once the dam is completed, and in Fengjie Xiao-dong paints former factory workers lounging and playing cards in swimming trunks before their city disappears. In Bangkok, the artist turns his attention to young women, who model dresses in the market distract as he tries to capture the bustle and malaise of the changing city. And finally, elsewhere in Bangkok Xiao-dong portrays a pair of blind men making their way through crowded streets. [source]