Today's posting is a quick one. This morning I saw one of the works from Maleonn’s Days on the Cotton Candy series flash up on a BBC World News trailer (channel 194 in Toronto). It was so fast I did not firmly register which work, but it seemed to have been Days on the Cotton Candy No 6 (reproduced above).
That work and others will be profiled as part of BBC’s The Culture Show in China, which airs Eastern Standard Time at 10:10 on Saturday, August 9. It will include an interview of Maleonn and shots of his studio in Shanghai. If you happen to be around the TV for the Beijing Olympics, you may want to channel surf to BBC to see how they use his work in their show.
This series is (at least, on the surface) the most pop-culture-y of all Maleonn's series to date, and very different from a series like Secondhand Tang Poems (about which more in later blog), but, as with all his work, there is more sub-text than first meets the eye. Certainly, from an external perspective, the series' location at the intersection of fine art photography and (theatrically constructed) design caught the eye of the curators of the recently-ended huge CHINA DESIGN NOW exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Four works from Days on the Cotton Candy were displayed, and one of them (Days on the Cotton Candy No 4, below) was given pride-of-place treatment in the book published by the V and A to coincide with the exhibition by having a section of the work being reproduced as a full two-page spread as the first photograph in the 158-photo, 190-page book, immediately after the Table of Contents: Zhang Hongxing and Lauren Parker, China Design Now (London: Victoria and Albert Publishing, 2008). 
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