#Rockbund Art Museum Shanghai 2022

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Tobias Rehberger

If You Don't Use Your Eyes to See, You Will Use Them to Cry

Edited by Billy Tang

Steinberg Press, London 2022, 176 pages, 153 col ill., 21,5x24,5cm, hardcover, ISBN 978-3-956 79-440-7 Co-Publisher Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) Shanghai

euro 35,00

This publication features a rich display of Tobias Rehberger's works in the exhibition "If You Don't Use Your Eyes to See, You Will Use Them to Cry" at the Rockbund Art Museum (RAM), taking the form of a fully functioning butcher shop serving food and drink, an assembly of ikebana-like flower arrangements, an inauthentic Japanese-style teahouse serving instant tea, a bar with irregular opening hours, subway posters across the city, malfunctioning signage, and a panoramic tableau of pixelated larger-than-life-sized popstars.  This book can also capture the culinary lens conceived by Chef Blake Thornley of the OHA Group and mysterious images that float between fiction and reality created by Shanghai-based photographer Xiaopeng Yuan. Through an assortment of elements and visual transduction, the image and text in this book unravel from one another while dovetailing serendipitously elsewhere. In that case, this book extends the exhibition's original boundaries and offers different ways of viewing.

This "recipe" invites the reader into a generative process in which the exhibition's ideas are warm rather than cold leftovers.

05/02/24

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Thảo Nguyên Phan (born 1987) is a Vietnamese visual multimedia artist whose practice encompasses painting, filmmaking, and installation. She currently lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City and has exhibited widely in Vietnam and abroad. Drawing inspiration from both official and unofficial histories, Phan references her country's turbulent past while observing ambiguous issues in social convention, history, and tradition. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Vietnam and abroad, at many public institutions, including the Factory Contemporary Art Centre, Ho Chi Minh City; Nha San Collective, Hanoi; Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai; Times Art Center in Berlin, Timișoara; and The Mistake Room, Los Angeles. Via Wikipedia read also: https://amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/feb/28/thao-nguyen-phan-theres-beauty-and-optimism-in-these-tragic-stories