Critical Mass

(Jiuxianqiao St, Beijing, China)

Title: Critical Mass (Jiuxianqiao St, Beijing, China)

Year: 2009

Measures: 154 x 300 cm

Technique: Rub ground, graphite on paper

Edition: 3/3

The title of the work refers to the social movements that promote the use of bicycles. This is one of three rubbed soil of the symbol of the bike in the bike lanes of Beijing, China. The rubbed were conducted in three locations near the District 798, or barrio of the art. In this work reflects the impression which it produced in the artist the scale of the city, where everything seemed huge. The bike lanes are the width of a track car. His experience of the city was marked by the use of the bicycle as a means of transport. Despite the limitation due to the language, in the way of moving it handled the universal language of the rider, which allowed him to easily feel part of the flows of the city, the host, absorbed and made part of it.