Zheng Guogu
Year Two Thousand, Another Two Thousand Years to Rust
1999-2006
Set of 23 hand made and etched life size wine and beer bottles
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In Year Two Thousand, Another Two Thousand Years To Rust Zheng uses iron for its connotations as primitive, industrial, and militaristic material, as well as for it's sheer weight, to cast a variety of liquor bottles. Zheng's sculpture makes reference to China's fast expanding economy in relation to its millennia-old history, humorously posing the transient icons of commodity culture and frivolous indulgence as indestructible anti-ergonomic ballasts. In theory, each of Zheng's bottles should take 2000 years to fully disintegrate, allegorically reversing the calendar of Western civilisation and restoring a balance of nature. |