--- author: Jan Brennenstuhl categories: - Street Art cover: alt: Abandoned Miniature Cities height: 840 src: https://www.urbanartcore.com/abandoned-miniature-cities/jiang-pengyi-miniature-city-2.jpg width: 1880 credit: '' date: '2010-09-24T15:59:25Z' description: 'Jiang Pengyi creates very interesting miniature cities in abandoned, forgotten houses in China and explores in that way the present Chinese modernity - skyscrapers, contemporary high-rise apartments, express ways...' tags: - Art Installation - Jiang Pengyi - Designer Toy title: Abandoned Miniature Cities url: https://www.urbanartcore.com/abandoned-miniature-cities/ --- # Abandoned Miniature Cities Chinese artist **Jiang Pengyi** has a foible for skylines, cities and urban landscapes and therefore started to create so called “unregistered cities” in abandoned warehouses. These abandoned miniature cities appeal somehow scary, but I really like the idea to stumble upon such an installation while my next warehouse visit... > In Jiang’s most recent series, titled Unregistered City, he further explores the present monuments to Chinese modernity - skyscrapers, contemporary high-rise apartments and the curves of Beijing’s express ways - but all done in miniature. Jiang sets his model cities in derelict buildings and vacant rooms that belong to the old world and that have been forgotten by the present. ([artnet.com](http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/banks/digital-generation3-3-10.asp)) By the way, China seems to have a lot of great abandoned spaces - If I would have no fear of being shot there, I would go there to paint... ![jiang pengyi - miniature city]() jiang pengyi - miniature city ![jiang pengyi - abandoned city]() jiang pengyi - abandoned city Via [rebelart.net](http://www.rebelart.net/diary/jiang-pengyi-unregistered-city/006627/).