2009年11月24日 星期二
Yoshitomo Nara
Yoshitomo Nara Installation view from "I DON'T MIND, IF YOU FORGET ME."2001
I Don't Mind, If You Forget Me ‘make by Yoshitomo Nara in 2001. The subject matter of his sculptures and paintings is deceptively simple: most works depict one seemingly innocuous subject (often pastel-hued children and animals drawn with confident, cartoonish lines) with little or no background. But these children, who appear at first to be cute and even vulnerable, sometimes brandish weapons like knives and saws. Their wide eyes often hold accusatory looks that could be sleepy-eyed irritation at being awoken from a nap—or that could be undiluted expressions of hate. I DON'T MIND, IF YOU FORGET ME show the unfamiliar feeling with each other.
Fake word
the work “integration”.And the artist name is Xu Bing. At first glance it appears to be Chinese characters, but in fact it is a new way of rendering English. Chinese viewers expect to be able to read it but cannot. Western viewers, however, are surprised to find that they can read it. Delight erupts when meaning is unexpectedly revealed. His fake characters, then, reveal the deceptiveness of all representation .He start to study the "New English Calligraphy," in 1994. New English Calligraphy is are writing style that combines the English symbols and characters of Chinese structure. The English Written in a pile of Chinese letters. This was completely broken the structure of conventional writing. The law of the reading these character is from left to right, from top to bottom, from outside to inside. However, the writing is not necessarily in full compliance with this rule. Sometimes if one word was show too frequency, there will be adjustments, sometimes written in upper and lower structures around the character.
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