Many artist came from Asia. Just like any other artist, they make an unique art that can describe themselves as an asian artist. Ai Wei Wei and Binh Danh are the example of many famous asian artist.
Ai Weiwei is an artist and a social activist. His work encompasses diverse fields including fine arts, curating, architecture, and social criticism. He was born in Beijing in 1957.
In collaboration with Herzog and de Meuron, Ai Weiwei designed the 2012 Serpentine Pavilion in London, UK. He also makes a very unique art called Tate Modern. What is Tate Modern? Tate Modern is made up of millions of small works that really like sunflower seeds, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen.
Ai Weiwei’s artwork has been exhibited in China, Japan, Korea, Australia, United Kingdom, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Israel, Brazil and the United States.
Ai weiwei was very a multitalented artist. He was very unique artist that came from asia. His artwork is very useful for everybody else, not just for him. Ai Weiwei has made many kind of art. Besides Tate Modern, he also has made snake ceiling, tea house, cube light, grapes, and many more.
Another great artist that came from Asia is Binh Danh. Binh Danh was born in Vietnam on October 9, 1977. Binh Danh is Vietnamese artist that has unique technique in his artwork. His technique incorporates his invention of the chlorophyll printing process, in which photographic images appear embedded in leaves through the action of photosynthesis. His newer body of work focuses on the Daguerreotype process.
Binh Danh received his MFA from Stanford University in 2004 and has emerged as an artist of national importance with work that investigates his Vietnamese heritage and our collective memory of war, both in Vietnam and Cambodia—work that, in his own words, deals with “mortality, memory, history, landscape, justice, evidence, and spirituality.”
Because of his unique artwork, he received the 2010 Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation and is represented by Haines Gallery in San Francisco, CA and Lisa Sette Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ.
“In my work, the art is used as a vessel to embark on a journey of exploration, discovery, and education. The histories I search for are the hidden stories of Vietnamese American experiences. The sciences are the processes in my work, both historical and contemporary photographic methods, and also techniques that I invent on this path of self-actualization. These processes are important to the content and aesthetic issues of the work. In my search, I collect, preserve, and evaluate biological specimens and historical artifacts, both real and metaphorical. My goals are to weave these findings into the larger society and explore the shared commonality among people of the United States in making multicultural history.” – Binh Danh
This is the example of his artwork.
References:
http://aiweiweisway.blogspot.com
http://www.thebuigallery.com/pages/ai-wei-wei-biography.html
http://www.complex.com/art-design/2013/11/ai-weiwei-biography/
http://www.apature.org/programs/special/vietnam/binh_danh.html
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