摘要
David Redic is a poet.He’s also a painter,a sculptor,a singer and a playwright.Oh,and did we mention he designs his own clothes?The creative Chicagoan arrived in Shanghai five years ago,on an artistic journey that led him to fall in love with the city and make it the center of his work–a striking ensemble of two-dimensional mixed-media assemblage and visual installations.To get to his house,an open studio-cum-exhibition space where he hosts anything from wine tastings to poetry readings,plays and intellectual gatherings,one walks down an old lane,past elderly Chinese ladies frying vegetables in a communal kitchen and up a rickety staircase painted in bold colors and dotted with sculptural wall pieces incorporating bamboo,glass,found objects and primary hues.And that’s just a first glimpse of the artist’s visionary world…
