Thursday, March 5, 2009

Hsieh Teh-Ching

Photo courtesy New York Times

Artist Hsieh Teh-Ching, who is originally from Taiwan, created original year-long performances that are finally receiving due recognition.
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The conclusion of a NY Times article about him caught my eye:
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“Maybe he was a man choosing art as a tool to demonstrate a certain philosophical set of conditions, and it served his purpose, so he doesn’t need it anymore. I think he’s bigger than art on some level. I think — I’ll be really extreme here — that he killed art so he could transcend it.”
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Perhaps. Or, perhaps, Mr. Hsieh said, with a wisp of a — sad? — smile: “I am not so creative. I don’t have many good ideas.”
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