eX de Medici: The Wreckers and Wu Wei Rong Collaboration

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One of Asia-Pacific's leading contemporary art galleries, Sullivan+Strumpf is pleased to present a new exhibition by Australian artist eX de Medici, The Wreckers and Wu Wei Rong Collaboration.

More than 12 months in the making, The Wreckers escalates the artist's ongoing interrogations of the global political, economic and environmental crisis and the devastating ramifications of power and greed.

Comprising of two large works and a video work, the exhibition presents an enormous and intricate watercolour illustration, The Wreckers and a landscape painting, Farmer and Foreigner, created in collaboration with Chinese-Australian artist Wu Wei Rong.

Spanning six metres, The Wreckers is a sprawling scene of violence and destruction, created in de Medici's unique aesthetic, drawing on her background as a tattooist. The heavily coded work shows a mass of wrecked cars against a black star-spangled banner, adorned by flowers and interspersed with the names of "the Wreckers - the worst people responsible for doing the worst things in the world".

The Wreckers is a boldfaced and thought-provoking prediction by the artist of the next metaphorical car crash to come. De Medici uses the paradox of beauty and ruin to sound the alarm on the unfolding climate catastrophe.

Farmer and Foreigner is a large collaborative landscape painting created by de Medici with Wei Rong during a three-week trip the artists took to China earlier this year.

The 11-metre-long unfolded Chinese painting album records their shared travel experiences. The watercolour and ink painting depict the steep, beauty of the mountains, serene ancient town and the variable current water merge into the sky.