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\u201cSong Ta: The Loveliest Guy\u201d<\/strong><\/a>
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Beijing Commune<\/strong> <\/a>(798 Art District 4 Jiuxianqiao Road Chaoyang District Beijing 100015), Sep 30\u2013Nov 15, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Variously rebuked and remembered for \u201cUglier and Uglier\u201d (2012), in which he spliced together and counted down footage of thousands of women at his university based on their level of attractiveness, Song Ta now has his first solo show at Beijing Commune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition is airy, with works lightly presented strung across the gallery and blue-tacked to a couple of the walls; a video, \u201cWho is the Loveliest Guy?\u201d projects in the end room. On the wall, photographs and scraps of paper constitute the piece \u201cPeople Who Write Like Me\u201d, which is what it says it is, though with more comic variation than might be expected; one example of handwriting has been done on an octopus. Hanging up are English language exam papers which have been answered by pupils and (sometimes incorrectly) marked by a teacher. \u201cThese Are Your Test Scores, and You\u2019re Still Playing Around?\u201d makes for pleasing, inconsequential reading, at a glance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the real pull of this show is the video. \u201cWho is the Loveliest Guy?\u201d is a piece of real comic dexterity. Split between 3 screens is a short recording of naval officers dressed impeccably in white, as if to go on parade. They climb aboard a rollercoaster, which various camera angles then show ascending feverishly around and to the top of the rails and plunging down; muffled shouts from the officers, their rigorously presented bodies sometimes embarrassed by gravity, legs dangling, are heard sometimes against a brilliantly incongruous soundtrack of Bizet\u2019s overture to Carmen. Witty art like this is truly rare\u2014not least amid Beijing\u2019s highly self-conscious and competitive scene. The value of its directness and low-key appeal is clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Song Ta is an artist working humorously and unapologetically. These works are born not of a deep conceptual idea, but instead often start from a whim (finding hand writing like his, or wondering whether a rollercoaster can shake naval officers\u2019 composure). Relying neither too much on form, nor commercial appeal, nor necessarily complex thinking, this is an enjoyable and worthwhile show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Song Ta, \u201cWho Is The Loveliest Guy\u201d, video installation, three-channel video, readymade installation, (color photographs, coated paper), video: 3\u201940\u2019\u2019, photo: 22.7 x 17.4 cm, 2014
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Song Ta, \u201cWho Is The Loveliest Guy\u201d, video installation, three-channel video, readymade installation, (color photographs, coated paper), video: 3\u201940\u2019\u2019, photo: 22.7 x 17.4 cm, 2014
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Song Ta, \u201cPeople Who Write Like Me\u201d, image, text, electronic documents, dimensions variable, 2014
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