HOU Chun-ming, Chakra, Clone Technique @ Ravenel Autumn Auction 2007, Lot 020

EXHIBITED:

Contemporary Taiwanese Art Exhibition, Part 2: Hou Chun Ming, Chen Chien Pei. Mitsubishi-jisho Artium, Fukuoka, Japan. Sep. 18 to Oct. 4, 1998

ILLUSTRATED:

Contemporary Taiwanese Art Exhibition, MOMA Contrmporary Co., Ltd, Fukuoka, 1998, p. 27

Chinese Woodcut: the Creation of Image, Ed. Alternatives, Paris, 2004, p. 177

On the Chinese Paintings of Male Body, Ed. Christophe Gendron, Paris, 2006, p. 87

Catalogue Note:

Some religious masters claimed that they knew the Chakra, clone techinique and had pictures to prove that these wonders were true. Such events became wide ly known in Ta iwan and thus engendered a just controversy in both religious and political terms. About the same period, many similar cases were revealed.

Using these social events as a blueprint, Hou Chun-ming, imitating the form of notification and pictorial, created his series of works: "Bitch Couple," "Fraudulent Sorcerer," "Chicken" and "Chakra, Clone Technique." Each carving shows his determination, and the bold lines reinforce the publicity of the art work and its intention of exhibit its viewpoint.

The aim of the work is neither to show present society itself nor to record an era, but to uncover the deepest human desires, fears, distress, and the nature of evil within these events. Therefore, Hou rewrites the news stories, neglecting the truth and questions the morality itself with the fabrication and subversion of the social events. He is telling the life story of everyone in this era.