No matter how much luxurious clothing we put on, we still cannot hide their true faces. After excavating their true parts beneath the flesh, we will reconstruct another pretty and messy paradise.” - YI-HSIN TZENG
YI-HSIN TZENG
This show presents several large-scale paintings based on Tzeng’s recent transformed image series titled, The Big Breast Calendar published by Taschen Diary (2009). The work contains nude females showing their giant breasts with affected gestures covered in part by painting patterns and strokes. Popular iconography, defaced and altered, brings questions of sexuality and the grotesque into sharp focus.
Tzeng collects large amounts of international commercial images from her daily visual environment. The action of altering and appropriating not only establishes her regurgitated aesthetics but also proclaims a regained control of the image. Please visit the online store of the artist for further inquiry:
Yi-Hsin Tzeng defaces selected images with playful mark-making, and then has an ongoing commitment to a series of publishing projects - a new edition of the magazine is available every two months. In this show, viewers can appreciate the original pages and the final transformed product at the same time.
Young Blood Gallery 636 N. Highland Ave. Atlanta, GA | 30306
Hours: Sun-Thurs 12-8 | Fri-Sat 12-9 | T. 678. 793. 57
