{"id":11807,"date":"2010-10-10T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/?p=11807"},"modified":"2023-05-02T15:07:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T15:07:14","slug":"carnival-of-the-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/zh-hant\/carnival-of-the-absurd\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival of the Absurd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u201cWu Junyong: The End of the Rainbow.\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifa-gallery.com\/\">IFA Gallery<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>(&nbsp;621 Changde Lu by Wuding Lu, Shanghai).&nbsp;<strong>Sept 9 \u2013 Nov 1, 2010.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although we\u2019ve often seen Wu Junyong\u2019s work as derivative of the more famous Tang Maohong, he succeeds in this exhibition at IFA to diversify himself as an artist exploring power in all its various permutations. His cast of characters acts out a transformation from victimization to empowerment and then to tyranny, finally landing themselves back into absurdity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While we\u2019re not great fans of his grotesque and somewhat cynical realist figurative drawings and paintings, this show blends a variety of mediums, including sculpture, paper cut and animation, and produces a mature body of work which develops the theme on a variety of different levels. His two animations \u201cFlowers of Chaos\u201d&nbsp;(2009)&nbsp;and \u201cClouds Nightmare\u201d&nbsp;(2010) are must-sees for the fall art season. Take time to revel in their hypnotic parade of images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Portrait of a totalitarian: adorned with a head-dress of lovely snakelike tentacles, tattered flags and obscure objects such as chopsticks and cranes. Wu Junyong combines images of state power and evil often with puppets and human hands speaking to issues of manipulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWu Junyong: The End of the Rainbow.\u201d&#038;nb &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/zh-hant\/carnival-of-the-absurd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[4792,7747,7748,7749,209,7751,7750,1755,7752,2774],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Carnival of the Absurd - \u71c3\u70b9 Ran Dian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/carnival-of-the-absurd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"zh_TW\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Carnival of the Absurd - 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