Su-Mei Tse - East Wind
date:Friday, August 29, 2008 time:10:00 AM to 5:00 PM venue:Seattle Asian Art Museum address:1400 East Prospect Street Seattle, WA 98112 View map from:Seattle Asian Art Museum
Luxembourg based artist Su-Mei Tse (born 1973) has become known for a dynamic
fusion of image and sound, whether in objects, videos, photographs or
installations.Tse represented Luxembourg at the 2003 Venice Biennale, where she
won the prestigious Golden Lion Award for best national pavilion.
As a classically trained musician raised in a musical family, it is not
surprising that sound is a carefully considered element of her work. For the
exhibition Su-Mei Tse: East Wind at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, the artist
presents two recent video works that cast nature in an active dialogue with
selected musical scores and subtly express Tse's Chinese heritage. In
Mistelpartition (Mistle Score, 2006) a slow, panning shot of trees in winter is
suddenly animated when the clumps of mistletoe in the trees become unwitting
notes in a musical score.
The Yellow Mountain (2004) features a mountainous Chinese landscape gradually
acted upon by a glowing, digitally rendered yellow "sun" rising between the
peaks before it morphs into something completely alien. Works such as this
resonate with the museum's collections of Chinese landscape paintings in
adjacent galleries. A modern take on birdcages, Tse's eponymous sculpture Bird
Cage (2007) reveals an interest in updating historical models in new media, by
juxtaposing her own works with those in the Seattle Asian Art Museum's
collection. Su-Mei Tse: East Wind proposes a fascinating and expansive
give-and-take between past and present, East and West.
Works such as this will resonate with the Chinese landscape paintings from the
museum's collections in our current exhibition Chinese Art: A Seattle
Perspective, revealing an active engagement and updating of historical models in
new media.
Hours:
Tuesday – Sunday: 10 am. – 5 pm.
Thursday: 10 am. – 9 pm.
Monday: closed
Tickets: Suggested Fees
$5 adults
$3 students with ID, seniors 62 and over and youth 13-17
Free for children 12 and under
Free for SAM members
Date: April 5 – December 7, 2008
Location: Seattle Asian Art Museum.
