Bombastischer Wasserspinat in Hoisin (Bombastic water spinach in Hoisin)
2022Single piece Signed Dated Titled
From the series Asian Kitchen To Go
Size
30 x 11.81 x 3.94 in
Year
2022
Medium
Paintings
Reference
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A reference to one of the daily experiences of many foreign read people is hidden behind the wok pans, which have been painted with typically perceived Asian landscapes. Named after dishes on Asian menus partly combined with war themes the artist condenses the clichéd expectations of Vietnamese immigrants and their background on the pans: "Asia kitsch to go"
1978 , Vietnam
Art and tattoos - even if there are many points of contact, the visual arts and tattooing still belong to different worlds. In the course of time, the tattoo increasingly rose from the role of a stigma and turned into a mass phenomenon. Since the 1970s and 1980s, tattoos have also been an object of art, for example in performances with Valie Export or Timm Ulrichs, but there is still a large discrepancy in the assessment of the classical arts and the craft of tattooing. Pham Thai Ho dares to build bridges in his work. The Vietnamese artist Pham Thai Ho started tattooing while still studying at the Academy of Arts in Munich. As an academy graduate and established tattoo artist, he is part of both art worlds. As a tattoo artist, he is always looking for new artistic forms of expression and thus elevates tattooing from his tradition as a craft activity. At the same time, the artist treads new paths in art by placing tattoos and the societal prejudices that resonate with them in the artistic discourse.
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In 2012 Anna Franek launched the Anna25 project in Munich. The exhibition project held a 25- hour exhibition every three months, always on the twenty-fifth of the month, in different locations. In the same year the gallery owner moved into her permanent exhibition space in Berlin Kreuzberg with the Anna25 gallery. The focus of the Anna25 gallery is on esta...
