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Art Chicago
14 years ago
So the boyfriend and I went to Art Chicago, a huge contemporary art exhibition in River North. It was massive, with lots of exciting, stimulating work. I was surprised to find work by a friend of ours (we met while studying in France), the Taiwanese painter Yi Hsin Tzeng. Surprised because I didn't know her work would be there, not surprised that she should be included. Her painting/collage is shocking, hilariously funny, unpretentious and mesmerizingly beautiful. Y'all should check her out.
This is from a series of tributes to the Taiwanese cultural artifact of the "stern official portrait," in her own style.
http://twitpic.com/4s3shs
This is from a series of tributes to the Taiwanese cultural artifact of the "stern official portrait," in her own style.
http://twitpic.com/4s3shs
That Stern Official Portrait brought a smile to my face. Great work.
That is a portrait of Chiang Kai-shek right there, quite personally responsible to the political disappearance of my granduncle, along with countless other democracy activists. Oh and yeah, took over family land on mom's side (on which family graves sit) and then proceeded to charge rent (i am not fucking kidding) for our family graves being inconveniently "on their land".
Anything to deface that motherfucker. Anything.
hnnngh eggface