David Zink yi
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- Exposition
Manganese Make My Colors Blue - DAVID ZINK YI
In the center of the upcoming exhibition "Manganese Make My Colors Blue," opening 5 October 2010, at the MAK Gallery, is a room-filling six-meter ceramic sculpture, produced in a labor-intensive process especially for the MAK, as well as a selection of recent photographs by Peru-born artist David Zink Yi. Relating art and nature, he takes up the tradition of the cosmopolitically inspired cabinets of art and curiosities of the 16th to 18th centuries. Another influence on Zink Yi's choice of motifs is the artistic examination of scientific research that came to pass in the 1920s when models from nature were incorporated in the Modernist canon of forms.
In the exhibition, the sculpture which is modeled on the Architeuthis, the giant squid, a fabulous ancient sea animal, is juxtaposed to nighttime photos of a ce...
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