May 26 – July 9, 2011

KENNETH TIN-KIN HUNG
The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages

Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, Ai God is Catching Ghost, 2011
digital print on canvas, 
36 x 48 X 4 in

In this thangka inspired collage Chinese artist and activist Ai WeiWei is cast as Hayagriva - a representation of an angry Guan Yin in Chinese Buddhism. He is holding the following weapons with his six arms: An iPhone “Facing Time” with Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo, a Twitter bird, a Lightsaber, a Chinese calligraphy brush, Scales of Justice, and a laptop with Grass Mud Horse graphics on the screen. Grass Mud Horse is the icon of citizens’ resistance to censorship.      

In his new exhibition The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung takes on the increasingly pervasive, draconian censorship of the Internet in China and  Chinese government restrictions of freedom of expression.  Through a series of dense collages, a video animation, and a sculpture of a ping-pong table where the net is replaced by a model of The Great Wall of China, Hung delivers a visual battlefield of biting political satire.  Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung has been called “the John Heartfield of the digital era.” Like Hartfield, who developed photomontage technique and turned it into a form of social critique, Hung’s meticulously researched works, composed entirely of imagery appropriated from online sources, expose injustice, corruption and hypocrisy, reflect on a call for social change, and direct attention to issues of today, which are bound to have historical impact. Tin-Kin Hung was born in Hong Kong and now lives in New York.
More information: http://www.tinkin.com/arts/the-travelogue-of-dr-brain-damages/

Also on view: SALLY SMART – Flaubert’s Puppets
Façade: NATALIE JEREMIJENKO - xCLINIC FARMACY

Postmasters Gallery located at 459 West 19th Street between 9 and 10 Avenues is open Tuesday through Saturday 11 – 6
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