Interpreting everyday contemporary art
During a trip to Taipei Fine Arts Museum, I had the opportunity to catch the tail end of the exhibition “In the Sunshine of the Relaxed Majorities” by contemporary artist James Ming-Hsueh Lee (李明學). In this solo exhibition he used a sense “of humor to reinterpret the items that surround us in our daily lives”.
Contemporary exhibitions like this i.e. those that utilize everyday products, can be controversial. Are they really works of art if the artist takes an item that was created by someone else for a different purpose and then uses it in a different way to call it his own? Is this a reinterpretation? Is it innovative? Is it creative? Did it really take any skill? Does context matter? And, does the artist need to explain what s/he has done for it to have meaning beyond the obvious? Or is leaving the art open to interpretation necessary? Do any of these questions even matter?
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