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Hello Mr. Hong

1998

Hong Hao 洪浩

(Chinese, b. 1965)
Culture
China, 20th century
Medium
Chromogenic print
Measurements
Paper: 73.7 x 61 cm (29 x 24 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Richard Born 2019.307
Edition
Edition of 15
Copyright
© Hong Hao
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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There were hardly any galleries selling contemporary art in China until the early 1990s.

Description

By the end of the 1990s, as the market for contemporary Chinese art began to grow, so did the ambitions of the artists. Abandoning the collective goals of the communist era, they sought to promote themselves and their art in the competitive global marketplace. Critiquing this commodification, Hong Hao used digital processing to insert his own elegantly dressed image, along with text, into commercial photographs of luxurious environments, advertising himself as suitable for the sophisticated Western art world.
A vertically oriented color photograph in cool brown and warm yellow tones depicts a man with medium-light skin tone, short, black hair, and glasses, sitting at a circular glass table. On our left, he leans back and looks at us, one leg crossed over another, book and pipe in his lap, and wearing a medium-brown suit with a yellow tie. A blurred hand reaches in from our right, pouring a golden yellow drink into one of two filled glasses. Beige couches extend through the blurred background. Yellow-orange text across the top reads "Hello Mr. Hong" followed by Chinese characters.

Hello Mr. Hong

1998

Hong Hao

(Chinese, b. 1965)
China, 20th century

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