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Violence & Beauty | 暴力与美感

Cai Guo-Qiang, Illusion II, (2006)

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Cai Guo-Qiang’s ephemeral spectacle beholds its viewers while stirring cognitive dissonance between violence and beauty. This representation of duality is especially saturated on the internet. Having this beautiful work of art installed in Singapore Art Musuem 8Q is our pleasure. As intense as it it, a wave of melancholia swathed over, in remembrance of the Anhalter station that used to deport 50,000 of the 17,000 Jews to concentration camps during World War II.

蔡国强使用了火药，形成了美丽的烟花，却让观众对于暴力与美之间顿时产生了矛盾的认知失调。对偶这种双面的表示，是我们现今使用互联网的经历所能感受到的。
能够把这幅作品装置于新加坡艺术博馆8Q是我们的荣幸。激动的能力来袭之时，也感受到绵绵的感伤，吊念着二战期场地安哈尔特站50000之17000被驱逐到集中营的犹太人。

 

On 1 November 1998, the NEA implemented a policy to limit the burial period of all graves to 15 years, due to a shortage of space in the cemeteries. After being buried for 15 years, graves are exhumed and the remains removed. Diana Toh, affectionately known as Mafia or ladyinblazer, has passed on, leaving behind nothing in physical world except loose data on the Internet. In an effort to curate the data ashes, a virtual tomb is erected for rememberers to observe in virtual awkward silence.

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      • I agree that Cai Guo-Qiang’s explosive work stirs a remarkable interplay between violence and beauty. That’s an excellent way of putting it. For the benefit of our bridge project, I am wondering if you can find a better visual representation of the work: it’s a little hard to read the display of fireworks. I am curious to know more about how it is installed. Obviously the work was created elsewhere and then there are artifacts being exhibited?

        • This exhibit installs dual screening in a black cube and a bench for passive viewing. I am afraid that is the only available element available for capture in this showcase. In view of our bridge project, perhaps then I could include other choice of subject?

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