Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung

Laurie and I went to the opening at Postmasters for Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung (and here is another site of his, look for the well-enter button) tonight, we met up with Cece Cole at Taxter and Spengemann and then headed over. Our friend Gianna's husband Scott Olson has the current show up at Taxter and Spengemann.

The show at Postmasters, Residential Erection, is a very interesting and provocative show. It is an interesting show for several reasons: the scale of the artworks, the tremendous presentation, and that the art is political, and is based on current events. It also represents the confusion and conflation of popular culture with politics, and does a great job putting the whole political scene into perspective.

The main room had two enormous sculptures that were based on the format of pop up books, and populated by the characters from the current American presidential election. One super interesting thing Tin-Kin did was to label each candidate with the corporate donors to their campaigns in a way that makes them read as tattoos. Which is funny in several ways, because most supporters (I predict) would be defensive, and it is also funny because they are branded by the brands that support them.