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Repository 155: The Betrayal of Tradition | Chua Ek Kay
“Tradition has been created by serious people who considered life a serious business and that it was necessary to produce serious things so that serious posterity would understand everything that these people, serious for their epoch, had done. I wanted to get rid of that …” – Marcel Duchamp A short sunset post for the week reflecting on the importance and challenges of betraying tradition. Chua Ek Key (1947-2008) was a Chinese ink painter from Singapore. Chinese ink painting is…
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Repository 18: Dead Gaddafi Paintings – A New Low
I’m not exactly sure whose bright brainchild this was, but British curator David Elliot was quoted in the article as being the lead – in short three artists have been commissioned to do a portrait of the dead Muammar Gaddafi. All three are painters, and I wonder if the small number is due to the sensationalism of this. One, a YBA grown accustomed likely to Damien Hirst antics, Jenny Saville. A Chinese artist likely used to anti-Western sentiment, Yan Pei-Ming,…
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Repository: Chinese Artists | Norway
Exhibition of note in Norway and Norway only – a group show “Real Life Stories” consists of nine contemporary Chinese artists, including Ai Wei Wei. Image pictured is by Xiang Jing, “Peacocks”, 2007 Glad these artists can have this sort of exposure in the West, though sad to imagine that their “real life stories” may not be suitable for such an exhibit in their homeland. A canadian artist that has done some beautiful photography of China and the effects of…
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