"As a new city, the software or the quality of the people and their artistic taste has to be boosted gradually," said Yang Fudong, a specialist in elaborate and deliberately puzzling multimedia displays who has become one of China's best known artists internationally.
At the Shanghai Gallery of Art recently, Yang was putting the finishing touches on a new exhibit, a labyrinthlike construction with two film projectors casting their images across the faces of people who wander inside. "In Shanghai I see people taking in the shows, going to the museums, even taking their children to the museums, and that's a beautiful thing," he said. "One doesn't become a fat man overnight, so we shouldn't be impatient."
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