Friday, June 6, 2008

Qiu Zhi Jie

This guy, Qiu Zhi Jie is amazing.  It's been a week now that i've worked with this chinese contemporary artist and to describe his quirky antics and his skill is beyond my vocabulary.  

QIU Zhijie
Born 1969 Fujian province

Tattoo 1, 1994

These photographs explore Qiu Zhijie's assertion that in our media-saturated age 'signs and codes have overpowered actual human beings, and our bodies have become merely their vehicles'.

In Tattoo 1 the character bu - meaning 'no' - is written across the artist's body and on the wall behind him, creating the illusion that it floats free of the body. In the adjacent photograph, a network of tacks wraps the body and its surroundings in a visual field with neither set boundaries nor clear meaning.

C-type prints Collection Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago


http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1369_between_past_future/exhibition.php

It's an honour to be working with him and i appreciate everything that i've learnt during this short period of apprenticeship. Just to be standing there observing how he does his work is just too good to be true.  to see artists at work- an inspiration. 

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