The China Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) hosts a solo retrospective survey of the work of Spanish artist José-María Cano. The exhibit focuses on his ongoing painting series The Wall Street 100, life-size paraffin wax portraits pulled from the pages of of the Wall Street Journal. Portrait subjects include Francois Pinault, Alan Greenspan, Barack Obama, and Bernard Madoff. The curators say, 'Reproducing these generic looking mass-produced portraits in wax was Cano's attempt to create authentic monuments with a three-dimensional effect and ironically express his opinion that these people were the new Venus-Aphrodites, and therefore he as a painter was obliged to affirm this beauty.'

Admission: Free

Date: Tue 08 Mar - Wed 23 Mar (Every day except Monday)

Time: 9:30am-5:30pm

CAFA Art Museum (中央美术学院美术馆) Details:

Admission: 15RMB

Telephone: 6477 1575

Address: 8 Hua Jia Di Nanjie, Chaoyang District 朝阳区花家地南街8号

Source: timeoutbeijing.com