Su-Mei Tse - East Wind
from:Seattle Asian Art Museum category:Arts and Entertainment posted:May 28th, 2008Luxembourg 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.
