Now on display at Asia Society Texas Center: Each of the six Mel - TopicsExpress



          

Now on display at Asia Society Texas Center: Each of the six Mel Chin works on view extends the artist’s connection to the culture, history and aesthetics of Asia. KNOWMAD (1999) is an installation with interactive experiences centered on mapping, borders, nomadism and the encroachment of technology. The complicated political histories across both western and eastern Asia, and America’s role in them, frame Geometry of Wrath (2005) and Our Strange Flower of Democracy (2005). Scholar’s Nightmare (2001) and Wheel of Death (2002) draw on Confucian and Buddhist philosophies, and their ability to both order and blur reality, while Magnolias in the Moonlight (1976) draw out the yin and yang principles in nature, and its ongoing influence on artists.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 20:30:23 +0000

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