"Kawaii Qing" (俏皮清)
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Each day billions of stories play out in a billion minds around the world. Like a clever game of hide and seek, we pick and choose our favorite narrative and run with it. Lost in a field of Takashi Murakami’s flowers,our brain tries to make sense of it all. Whether it succeeds or fails is anyone’s guess, for the outcome will remain a mystery to all. Call it having a wild imagination, catastrophizing, or creative thinking. It’s all semantics. These kawaii stories emerge from our peculiar inner world leaving behind a trail of scattered images and thoughts like spontaneous Cai Guo-Qiang's explosive artworks! Imagination helps us by multiplying and expanding our perspective while on our quest for meaning. Doesn’t matter what you’re searching for or what you think you’re after. The prize is in the process, on the road to wherever you think you’re headed. We fret much although it’s all simpler than we think. Try stepping out of that little box of yours every once in a while, sit back, and watch it play your brightly colored stories.
Each day billions of stories play out in a billion minds around the world. Like a clever game of hide and seek, we pick and choose our favorite narrative and run with it. Lost in a field of Takashi Murakami’s flowers,our brain tries to make sense of it all. Whether it succeeds or fails is anyone’s guess, for the outcome will remain a mystery to all. Call it having a wild imagination, catastrophizing, or creative thinking. It’s all semantics. These kawaii stories emerge from our peculiar inner world leaving behind a trail of scattered images and thoughts like spontaneous Cai Guo-Qiang's explosive artworks! Imagination helps us by multiplying and expanding our perspective while on our quest for meaning. Doesn’t matter what you’re searching for or what you think you’re after. The prize is in the process, on the road to wherever you think you’re headed. We fret much although it’s all simpler than we think. Try stepping out of that little box of yours every once in a while, sit back, and watch it play your brightly colored stories.
STATUS
SOLD. Private collection, Paris.
SOLD. Private collection, Paris.
EDITION, MEDIA, SIZE & WEIGHT
Unique Edition, Shanghai 2021
RGB LED display, acrylic painting on Plexiglass, Vietnamese linen embedded in hand cast resin, teakwood frame
51.5(W)×51.5(H)×5.5(D) cm // 10.1 kg
TECH SPECS
• 1×SLC SD Card
• 4×MWLPV20-5 (INPUT 100~240VAC@0.55A / OUTPUT 5V@3A)
• (3+1 spare)×RGB P4 1921-64X32-8S-M3 / SWP4210114MGJF-0490/196PUT 5V@3A)
CRATE SIZE & WEIGHT
66(W)×66(H)×21(D) cm // 22.8 kg
EXPOSURE
“The Freaky Deaky island6 Circus Show” at island6 Shanghai
CREDITS
Gao Lei 高磊 (painting) • Aline Hui 许桑淇 & Camilla Zhao 赵莹 (performance) • Yeung Sin Ching 杨倩菁 (production supervisor) • Thomas Charvériat (art direction & animation) • Tiara Alvarado-Leon (blurb)
Unique Edition, Shanghai 2021
RGB LED display, acrylic painting on Plexiglass, Vietnamese linen embedded in hand cast resin, teakwood frame
51.5(W)×51.5(H)×5.5(D) cm // 10.1 kg
TECH SPECS
• 1×SLC SD Card
• 4×MWLPV20-5 (INPUT 100~240VAC@0.55A / OUTPUT 5V@3A)
• (3+1 spare)×RGB P4 1921-64X32-8S-M3 / SWP4210114MGJF-0490/196PUT 5V@3A)
CRATE SIZE & WEIGHT
66(W)×66(H)×21(D) cm // 22.8 kg
EXPOSURE
“The Freaky Deaky island6 Circus Show” at island6 Shanghai
CREDITS
Gao Lei 高磊 (painting) • Aline Hui 许桑淇 & Camilla Zhao 赵莹 (performance) • Yeung Sin Ching 杨倩菁 (production supervisor) • Thomas Charvériat (art direction & animation) • Tiara Alvarado-Leon (blurb)
CLOSE-UPS
VIDEO
BEHIND-THE-SCENES VIDEO