Orchid Finger

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TANG MAOHONG

Born In 1975, Works and lives in Shanghai

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Orchid Finger

TANG Maohong
Orchid Finger
2004
8 minutes 12 seconds
Video | Multichannel | 3 screen animation film installation, sound by Jin Feng
Edition of 8

code: TMHU006 / id:5691

animation   film  installation (3 channels ),  silkscreen  prints (12 pic)
projectors: 3 (3000  lumens, same brand)
DVD  player: 3 (made by  same brand)
speakers :  3  pairs  ( same brand)
size  of every single round diameter:    160CM
Every DVD should be play  at same time and auto loop. It is keypoint for installation.

The distinctive aroma of art invented by TANG Maohong permeates his animation installation Orchid Finger as well as the silkscreen prints related to this piece. It is smart, humorous, peculiar and amusing. All the figures are displayed within round frames traditionally adopted in Chinese painting for themes like flowers and birds. The description of scenarios including flowers, pagodas and mushrooms has significantly deviated from still pictures in traditional sense. Talking in a straightforward language, it is a surreal world with self-humour, where human, animals and plants interacting with each other all gather together in the big carnival. The artist successfully presents a professional technique that combines tons of imagination and sensitivity obtained from everyday experience and then translates them into recognizable style characterized by exaggeration and uniqueness. What is reflected in his image world is not just the naissance of a new theme. Instead, it is imagination of a soul attached to flowing iconographic environment as well as reversal from tradition that bears too much to move.
The artist has displayed his works in the 7th Shanghai Biennale (2008), China - Facing Reality (Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Foundation Vienna, Austria, 2007), Thermocline of Art, New Asian Waves (ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2007), Have You Eaten Yet? 2007 Asian Art Biennial (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, China) and Singapore Biennale 2006.

The works by TANG Maohong have been exhibited in the 7th Shanghai Biennale, China - Facing Reality (Vienna, Austria), Thermocline of Art, New Asian Waves (Karlsruhe, Germany), Have You Eaten Yet? 2007 Asian Art Biennial (Taiwan, China) and Singapore Biennale 2006.

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