Skip to main content

Rong Xiang

Caspar Stracke

2008 00:08:34 United StatesEnglishColorStereo
Tags:
Architecture

Description

Rong Xiang is a work on architectural replicas, piracy and its consequences. It is a comparison of LeCorbusier's chapel Notre Dame Du Hautin Ronchamp, France with its exact replica in Zhengzhou, Henan province East China. The work further compares LeCorbusier's human-scale informed "Modulor" concept with ancient Tao philosophy of Confucius and master builders of the Han dynasty. The Ronchamp replica in Zhengzhou is now a legend--it was short lived, erected in 1994 and demolished in 2006 after a three-year long dispute with the "Foundation LeCorbusier" in Paris.

About Caspar Stracke

Caspar Stracke is a German video artist based in New York. He works with film, video, and digital media. His single channel work and installations have been shown at MoMA New York, the Whitney Museum, Anthology Film Archives, New York, the Flaherty Seminar, Film Forum LA, Yerba Buena Center SF, Center for Media and Technology (ZKM) Karlsruhe, Germany, Renia Sofia, Madrid, Image Forum and ICC Tokyo, among others. He has participated in festivals and gallery exhibitions throughout the US, Latin America, Canada, Europe and Japan. He is the founder of Lossless Video, an on-line forum for video art criticism.

Stracke has also worked as a curator for institutions such as The Knitting Factory, NY, Eighth Floor Gallery, VideoEx, Zürich, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Ocularis/Galapagos Art Space, New York, DUMBO NewYork, and CityZooms, Bremen.