2024 CAFA Graduate Exhibition
I believe everyone understands something
Then you must have seen such a group of works
Works: "You Don't See the Sorrowful White Hair of the High Hall Mirror"
Author: Wang Tianzhi
尺寸：300cm X300cmX600cm
Materials: coal, specimen prosthesis, bouquet, polyethylene
Instructors: Zhang Guolong, Wu Jian'an, Wang Yuyang
The author says it's a reflection on the plight of traditional Chinese families
Many people see their parents face embarrassment when they see them
There will be a kind of psychology of avoidance and even shame
This psychology is due to thousands of years of cultural accumulation
Children do the same to their elders, and parents do to their children
This pile of deer trampled on coal on each other
How can you not know the situation of the people around you who are dyed black
It's just that they're running away
It is such a group of works
Recently, it has been labeled as "plagiarism".
Artist Huang Yongping's 2012 installation "Circus". The whole work is full of dramatic tension. A giant wooden hand with movable joints dangles in the air, and under its control is a giant bamboo cage with fifteen headless specimens of wild beasts placed inside and outside the cage, including black bears, lions, bullfights, wild boars, goats and hares, and even a flying bat.
Similarly, the incisions in the necks of these animals were covered in red fabric, and blood appeared to clot on top of the wounds. And scattered everywhere like the beast specimen is another wooden giant hand, manipulating and losing control in the same time and space.
Circus installation, 2012
Objects, wood, bamboo, taxidermy, resin, steel, thread and cloth
Animals, as protagonists of the apocalypse, allow humans to successfully detach themselves from the sensory experience of being the protagonists, and the presence of helicopters implies that humans are looking down on the here and now from the perspective of God. Similarly, in the circus, the wooden hand that manipulates the puppet in the sky is always inseparable from the divine nature, or the existence of the controller.
We think about whether animals are human beings or controlled by another force, and they collectively serve as allegories or prophecies that symbolize and metaphorize contemporary political, social, and cultural situations, in order to explore and present the power relations behind them.
There's no denying it
There is a certain similarity between the two sets of works
It's all the idea of an animal decapitation
But there is a clear difference in meaning and expression
First, let's take a look at how the author himself responded
Let's take a look at what netizens say
Finally, let's take a look at the details of this group of works
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