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Author Tseng Kwong Chi / Dan Cameron / Kenny Scharf
Pages 126
Signed No
Publisher Paul Kasmin Gallery
Publishing date 2008
Publishing place New York
Language English
Edition First edition
Binding Hardcover including dustjacket
Book condition Collectible; Very Good
Condition description Very nice copy. Bottom corner of cover bumped. Inside fine, hint of toning to page edges.
Cover condition Fine
Dimensions (cm hxb) 27 x 27,5
Text: Paul Kasmin Gallery Tseng Kwong Chi (born 1950, Hong Kong; died 1990, New York) Tseng Kwong Chi is internationally known for his photographic series Expeditionary Self-Portrait Series a.k.a. East Meets West. In over 100 images, he poses in front of iconic architecture and sublime nature as his invented artistic persona, a Chinese “Ambiguous Ambassador” in the classic Mao suit. “A cross between Ansel Adams and Cindy Sherman,” the work explores tourist photography in a playful juxtaposition of truth, fiction, and identity. Tseng was an important documentarian and denizen of the downtown 1980’s New York club and art scene. During his brief but prolific 10-year career, he created over 100,000 vibrant color and black-and-white photographs of his contemporaries Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, Jean-Michel Basquiat, McDermott and McGough, Kenny Scharf, Philip Taaffe, Madonna, Grace Jones, the B-52’s, and Fab Five Freddy, among others, a rich historical archive of the decade. In 1990, Tseng died at age 39 from complications related to the AIDS virus, leaving an enduring body of work that engages major photographic traditions -- the tourist snapshot, portraiture, the Sublime tradition of landscape photography, documentary and performance. Tseng’s photographs have been exhibited widely in international exhibitions and are in numerous major public museums and private collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

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