Here are two artists who make use of 'China' to create fascinating works of art:
Li Xiaofeng is a Beijing based artist who creates beautiful sculptures that can actually be worn. His creations are made out of traditional Chinese ceramic shards coming from the Song, Ming, Yuan and Quing dynasties, which are then sewn together on a leather undergarnment (picture source Arrested Motion).
Born to Trinidadian parents in Ireland, Brendan Lee Satish Tang is a ceramic artist who now resides in Kamploops, British Columbia, Canada. His series ‘Manga Ormolu’ is a commentary on globalization examined through the relationship between traditional Chinese Ming dynasty vessels and techno-pop art of Japan. Tang casts traditional vessels and adorns them with prosthetics inspired by Japanese anime and manga, subverting the elitism of the vessels ‘with the accessibility of popular culture.’ The concept of adapting the Ming vessels is designed to recall 18th century French gilded ormolu, which borrowed Chinese vessel forms to act as curiosity pieces for aristocrats (via Designboom).
3 comments:
That's different! Beautiful and funny at the same time.
Yes, I love this creativity and am always surprised at how people reinterpret and combine elements and cues of different types to create something new.
This goes in the same line with the concept of postmodernism and Faris Yakob's ideas of the so-called "recombinant culture": "all cultural artifacts are a comment of what came before". Love this idea! And fits well the two artists in the post :)
Yes, it is a great description of the artists =)
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