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Last updated: 2015-11-09

Gallery: Surge Art Beijing 2014

An extensive look at Surge Art Beijing 2014, on at Modern MOMA until May 11. Paintings priced to move from young Chinese contemporary artists.

Sneaking in amongst the music festival events and blah, blah, blah, here's Beijing largest affordable art fair of the year -- Surge Art Beijing 2014 -- which features, on the block, thousands of pieces of contemporary art from Beijing and Chinese artists. This year, Surge occupies a lofty and winding gallery space on the 20th floor of the Modern Moma -- that's those connecting walkways that join the buildings of the MOMA together. Framed works vie for space amongst sculptural pieces. The name of the game is moving some units with this one -- there's (basically) no large-scale installation or multi-media work. These are all pieces (affordably) priced for guests to take for their homes (or hip-ass Gulou cafe spaces, whichever). The space is really something, these big airy, sunny corridors 20 storys above the ground. The exhibition is massive. Massive, massive, massive. There's too much going on to justly summarize what's on display, suffice it to say, the works themselves are largely figurative, and largely paint on canvas. It's definitely geared towards collectors coming from a more layman's perspective. If you see something you like, you can buy. Here's how that works: We popped by today to have a taste and ended up taking about 90,000 pictures. Here's a great sprawling, scrolling monster of what's on show. Surge runs until May 11. There's no entry fee. It's on from 10am to 7pm each day. Look for building 5 in MOMA and head to the 20th floor. *** Art, yo. *** Surge runs until May 11. Details here.

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