Person
Artist
Tang Maohong
唐茂宏
Date of birth
1975
Place Of birth
Lingchuan, Guangxi, China
Biography
Tang Maohong graduated from the China Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou in 2000 and now divides his time between Beijing and Seoul. He simultaneously references and undermines art history and popular culture. He has integrated a variety of visual elements and subject matter, producing works that inhabit the ever-blurred border between fine art and popular illustration. His work is absurd, magical, humorous and confrontational, hinting that the juxtapositions of figurative objects might be more than just illusions. Tang Maohong's pictorial universe reflects not only a new subject – a psyche whose internal eclectic imagination is echoed in the environment of constantly flowing images – but also the inversion of out-grown traditions. (Information from ShanghART Gallery)
