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HUNG TUNG-LU

Giovanni Anselmo
AES+F
Carla Accardi
Nobuyoshi Araki
Shoja Azari
Fernanda Brunet
Sylvie Fleury
Hamish Fulton
Daniele Galliano
Marco Gastini
Mario Giacomelli
Dan Graham
Abbas Kiarostami
Jannis Kounellis
Sol Lewitt
Richard Long
Luigi Mainolfi
Fabian Marcaccio
César Martínez
Mona Marzouk
Masbedo
Mario Merz
Zwelethu Mthethwa
Shirin Neshat
Vladimir Nikolic
Luigi Ontani
Mimmo Paladino
Giulio Paolini
Claudio Parmiggiani
Giuseppe Penone
Miguel Angel Ríos
Bernardi Roig
Salvo
Andres Serrano
Melanie Smith
Kiki Smith
Jessica Stockholder
Mary Sue
Hung Tung-Lu
Vedovamazzei
Gilberto Zorio

Evangelion: Ayanami Rei, 2001
Duraflex - print
128x96 cm
Cyber seems to be the most important word in the end of the century. Most of us spend our time living in the cyberspace constructed by Internet and virtual reality. My art comes from my life. I listen to electronic music. I dance in electronic discos to forget I am still alive and I feel I am almost in heaven…

In this kind of world, as shown is Hung's art, synthetic artificial commodities become now the first-hand reality, while Nature with capital letter is relegated to the role of myth. Plastic dummies, mass-printed religious icons, artificial flowers and electrical lighting dominate Hung Tung-Lu icons, our new icons, the images of a new cult, where Commerce becomes religion, and religion commercialised with cartoon and video stars replacing the traditional, orthodox beliefs and values as false goddesses . But as consumer logic transcends the boundary of nations, the direct result of an emerging globalisations is the loss of cultural identity. While East meets West, the identity of Taiwan, where Hung has come from and is based, is obviously absent in his post-modern images all pervaded by the world wide powerful media-capitalism.

Street Fighter: Chun-Li, 2001
Duraflex - print
12,8x96 cm
Lynn Minmay, 2001
Duraflex - print
12,8x96 cm