Thought Patterns
by Emanuel
June 11, 2007 at 21:11
filed under art+design+technology, Vancouver
Tagged art, design, Vancouver
I very much appreciated one of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s current exhibitions, a retrospective of Huang Yong Ping.
(He’s) a contemporary French visual artist of Chinese origin. Huang’s work combines many media and cultural influence, but is particularly strongly influence by the intellectual abstraction of Dada and by Chinese numerology traditions. Founder of the Xiamen Dada group in China in the 1980s, Huang’s installations have included unorthodox materials such as live snakes and scorpions. Many of Huang’s sculptural works encompass a large scale, some tens of meters in dimension.
There was some ridiculous fuss from the Vancouver Humane Society which forced the Vancouver Art Gallery to change one of the installations but the artist’s response is well worth the read.
From April 5 to September 16, 2007
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