ARTISTS >  Michael Wolf

SELECTED WORKS
1.Architecture of Density
建筑密度
2.Industrial Architecture
工业 建筑
3.Night 夜景
4.Transparent City
透明城市
5.The Real Toy Story
真实的玩具总动员
6.100 x 100
7.China Real Fake Art
中国真实的假艺术
8.100 Bastard Chairs
 
"Biography"
"China Projects"
Solo Exhibition

China Copy Art portraits were photographed in Shenzhen’s Dafen “Art Village,” where millions of paintings are produced each year. Copy art is a multimillion-dollar industry in China, which produces 70 percent of the copies of famous masterpieces and exports 80 percent of them to supermarkets and galleries in North America and Europe.

Showing the faces behind the industry, Wolf explores the idea of mass production in contrast with unique artistic creation - the fastest workers can produce 30 paintings a day - and asks the viewer to consider the nature of art and artistry itself. When asked about his copy of Van Gogh’s famous Sunflowers, one copy artist said, “This is an easy one. I need to make no more than 400 brush strokes.”