EXHIBITED:
Close to Open, 48th Venice Biennale: The Taiwan Pavillion Exhibition, Venice, 1999
The Darker Side of Playland - Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2000
From Iconoclam to Neo-Iconolatry: Taiwan's Contemporary Art in the Post-Martial Law Era, Cherng Piin Gallery,
Taipei, June 2001
Chinese Information and Culture Center, New York; Manhattanville College, New York, 2001 Full Frontial: Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection, Denver Museum, Denver, Colorado, 2003
Fiction@Love, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, 2006
ILLUSTRATED:
Mei Dean-e etc., Lin Hsiao-yun & Wang Ping-hua ed., Flux and Imagines: The Taiwanese Contemporary Art in 1990s,
S-An Cultural Foundation & Ecus Culture Publishing, Taipei, 2001, color illustrated, pp.126-128 & p.162
Li Wei-jing, Portraits of Young Artists, Artist Publishing, Taipei, 2002, color illustrated, pp.32-34
Hsieh Tung-shan, Contemporary Art in Taiwan, Artist Publishing, Taipei, 2002, color illustrated, no. 132 & 133,
pp. 131-132
Fiction@Love, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, 2006, color illustrated, pp. 15-16
Catalogue Note:
Hung Tung-lu is one of the progressive artists in Taiwan who possesses global vision, educated in Department of Fine Arts, Chinese Culture University and Plastic Arts Department, Tainan National College of Arts, currently lived in Shanghai concentrated in artistic creations. His works had participated in several international art exhibitions, includes 1999 48th Venice Biennial, 2000 31es Rencontres internationals dela Photographie, Arles, 2000 Taipei Biennial, 2001 Arco and 2004 Shanghai Biennale.
Although Hung's age doesn't fit into the E generation, but he expected himself to be one of them. He chronically observed the consumer behavior and hedonic value of the young generation, and he speaks out for the present cultural phenomenon. He peculated famous cartoon characters which prevailed in Taiwan's subculture during the 80's, such as the Sailor Moon, Street Fighter: Chun-Li and Evangelion, through digitization and advertise light boxes, he created a virtual idol in the classical scenery and under the religious holy light to satirize young generation's fetish and psychedelic state of mind.
This lot includes as four pieces: "Pretty Soldier: Sailor Moon", "Lynn Minmay", "Street Fighter: Chun Li" and "Evangelion: Ajanami Rei". Finished in 1999, they are all color composite image which are from photograph and icon. These four characters feature the pretty idol of Japanese comic, animation and video. The role they played is the new century saint soldier in the coming universe; meanwhile, they are responsible for saving human beings and are named as Messiah in the future. Hung's post-modern style creation peculated the image of four pretty soldiers and has some changes in order to accord with his needs in creation.
ABSOLUT VODKA bottle in 1985, the cooperative relationship between the company and art has initiated. Afterwards, ABSOLUT worked with pop art artists such as Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf. Hung is the first Asian artist whom ABSOLUT VODKA had ever worked with. The ABSOLUTE-and-artist collaboration had helped to push through the"ABSOLUT EXPRESSIONS" Exhibition Tour in most major museums.
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