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Eloge de l'Art par Alain Truong
8 mars 2009

Gao Yuan: Japanese Yakuza Tattoo - Zen #1, 1991

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Gao Yuan: Japanese Yakuza Tattoo - Zen #1, 1991

height - 23 in, width - 15.75 in. signed, signed, dated, titled and numbered on the mount. Edition: 3/6. Estimate: from $3,000 to $4,000

Note: Gao Yuan, Japanese Yakuza Tattoo - Zen # 1, 1991. Gelatin silver print, 23.00 x 15.75 inches, 58.4 x 40.00 centimeters. With Acid-Free Mat: 29.8 x 23.75 in., 75.7 x 60.3 centimeters. Signed. Edition 3/6.

GAO was born in Taiwan in 1962. Her family came from Tien Jin, China. GAO studied under Mr. Miki Jun in 1987 and received her MFA degree from Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan with a focus on Photography in 1989. She had extensive experience in commercial and fashion photography and completed advanced courses in photography at New York Film Academy in 1997. GAO was winner of Soho Photo Gallery Competition (New York) in 2004. Her work was exhibited in Aqua Art Miami, Asian Contemporary Art Fair (New York), AIPAD (New York), Palacio Consistorial de Cartagena (Spain), Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, and major fine art galleries, including Throckmorton (New York) and Gao Brothers Gallery (Beijing).

Gao Yuan’s photographs are portraits of cultural phenomenon, portraits of the prevailing milieu that her human subjects live and move in. In photographing these spaces of proclamation and transgression Gao Yuan reminds us of our human preoccupation with identity and the relationship between identity and visible appearance. The French philosopher Lacan theorized the development of a sense of self as developing out of the ability to see a mirror image in a reflection. The photograph is like a mirror reflecting back to us our social identity.

In relation to the images of tattooed bodies Gao Yuan deliberately crops out or draws the viewer’s attention away from obvious clues to personality. Rather her compositions direct the viewer’s gaze to the cultural context of the body and its representation in physical and cultural space. She focuses on details that give subliminal clues to identities.

The artist is currently living & working in Beijing & New York.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009. www.artnet.com/AUCTIONS

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