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Chen Tianzhuo: PICNIC PARADI$E BITCH

Past exhibition
19 July - 31 August 2014 Shanghai
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Chen Tianzhuo: PICNIC PARADI$E BITCH

Chen Tianzhuo latest, multi-screen, video works presented here are elements that inform the artist’s long-format, staged opera epic ADAHA, which will be released next year. In PICNIC, a work made in collaboration with dancer Beio, a strange, possessed spirit that comes alive through a psychedelic hallucination, contorts against an alter of neon lights. PARADI$E BITCH shows a Canton style rap battle between two tattooed midgets who represent the good and bad angels of one’s inner conscious. By conflating the iconography of today’s underground culture with Japanese post-war Butoh dancing and tribal religion Chen’s work celebrates the eternal human desire for a mythology of transcendence while questioning faith’s continual reliance upon the image.

 

Special thanks to Xu Chenxu and iWeekly for their support.

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Works
  • Chen Tianzhuo 陈天灼, PARADI$E BITCH 天堂 婊子, 2014
    Chen Tianzhuo 陈天灼, PARADI$E BITCH 天堂 婊子, 2014
  • Chen Tianzhuo 陈天灼, Picnic 野餐, 2014
    Chen Tianzhuo 陈天灼, Picnic 野餐, 2014
  • Chen Tianzhuo 陈天灼, Picnic Triptych 野餐
    Chen Tianzhuo 陈天灼, Picnic Triptych 野餐
  • Chen Tianzhuo 陈天灼, Tapestry 2 挂毯II, 2014
    Chen Tianzhuo 陈天灼, Tapestry 2 挂毯II, 2014
  • Chen Tianzhuo 陈天灼, Tapestry 3 挂毯III
    Chen Tianzhuo 陈天灼, Tapestry 3 挂毯III
  • Chen Tianzhuo 陈天灼, Tapestry 4 挂毯IIII, 2014
    Chen Tianzhuo 陈天灼, Tapestry 4 挂毯IIII, 2014
  • Chen Tianzhuo 陈天灼, Tapestry1 挂毯1, 2014
    Chen Tianzhuo 陈天灼, Tapestry1 挂毯1, 2014

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