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Cell phones, paintbrushes and chance encounters. In Shanzhai, Hong Kong, this unusual story is spun by a group of copyist painters during a seemingly endless night.
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Shanzhai Screens. The art of the copyist painters
It's night in Shenzhen. Copyist painters talk about their everyday lives and their practice.
Their gestures borrow as much from the artistic imagination as they do from straight labor, from recent technologies to classical techniques.
What takes shape here is another history of painting.
