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This weekend, Shanghaiist went to the Bund area and scoped out a couple of galleries. First stop was Contrasts Gallery on Sichuan Zhong Lu. The ultra-modern space is housed on the fifth floor of a run-down heritage building (providing the "contrast" of the gallery's namesake) and shows work that leans more towards design than fine art. The current exhibition features the sculptures of Luo Xu, whose work Shanghaiist had never seen before this weekend and probably will never see again (consciously, at least). It's a shame when a great space like Constrasts Gallery has is wasted on mediocre work like Luo Xu's. Most of his sculptures, which are made to resemble dying leaves, are cold, impassive blobs that give no indication of the emotions that the leaves are supposed to represent. Then there was the piece called "Bathtub", which is indeed a large bathtub ... but one that is formed from a woman's naughty bits. We would call it clever if it weren't so tacky ... and there wasn't a woman's leg daintily arching above to make the showerhead. Cute, but cute vaginas aren't really our thing. more ›