Man （男人）

Creator(s)

Tian-yuan LI 李天元

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Date

1993

Format

Photograph

Materials

Oil paint

Dimensions

160 x 180cm

Description

This works is composed majorly of three layers of subjects. The very bottom looms a painted male figure with intensely articulated musculature. His identity (face), however, is concealed (appropriated) by another male figure holding a swan, whose image is superimposed onto the muscular man, specifically on his face and chest. The last layer assigned to this work is a number of iridescent, square-shaped, blocks permutating (almost pixelating) regularly -- with almost equal distance from one and another -- on the surface. (Jerry Wu'23).