I went to see the exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in April. Photography was not allowed for the majority of the collection. So here are the 3 pieces that I managed to document from over 120 works in the show. Do check out the slide show of the exhibition. There are some quite interesting stuff. For example, there is one digital photograph that looks very much like an abstract Chinese landscape painting, but in fact is just a photo of some naked butts, with hairs sticking out at various places, and even with mosquitoes on some of them. Hmm.Back to what I got with my camera. The first one is the familiar figure in the above poster. He is seen in paintings, and as life-size sculptures in the hallway. He himself alone might seem silly, but the multiplicity makes him irresistibly hilarious.
2000 A.D. (2000) Yue Minjun, Painted polyester, 25 figures, each 74 x 18 in.The second one is Boy Reading Mao Book (1998-1999) by Xu Yihui. What brings him to tears?
The last one is also work of porcelain, titled Obsessive Memories (2003), by Liu Jianhua. The poses are quite erotic!
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