Cao Fei: HX Serpentine correspondences and various ephemera

correspondences and various ephemera

features texts in English and Italian by Richard Flood

showcasing Arpita Singh’s prolific six-decade painting practice

Greil Marcus

Cao Fei: HX Serpentine correspondences and various ephemeraHX is published on the occasion of Cao Feis exhibition, Blueprints, at the Serpentine Galleries, and forms part of the artists extensive research project of the same name developed over several years. HX takes Cao Feis studio, the former Hongxia Theatre, as a starting point, and expands out into neighbouring Jiuxianqiao and Dashanzi Districts. The theatre was built during a period of intense industrial development throughout the 1940s, 50s and 60s,