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Crane's
legs, Deer's tracks
January 29 - February 18 1999 |
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At
CCA Project gallery, he created the world of mutability by the art
of the drug of transmutations, with orpiment and cinnabar as mineral,
deer and crane as animals together with a pine tree on the mirror-like
floor. The two different minerals are regarded as the most essential
medicinal stones in this Chinese alchemy, and they have the animating
ability to be transmuted into the gold or elixir of immortality.
With the mythological meaning, both of the animals play as messengers
who invite us to the mystical world. By this installation with such
animals, plant, minerals playing a metaphorical role, Huang aims
to transform and transcend the context to reveal the latent reality,
probing to be highly effective and significant. Also, the ancient
art of the drug of transmutation can be compared with the art in
our time. The alchemy might be a sort of art which transform the
ordinary things in both physical and spiritual status. And, the contemporary
art does not interpret simply: as the stone can transmute into the
gold, and vice versa.
Huang Yong Ping stayed at CCA as a professor of the Research Program
from December 16, 1998 to January 31, 1999. |
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