Vu Dan Tan
Money series/ Hong Kong Dollars – Charlie Chaplin subset, 1997
Monoprint, ink on paper or newsprint & photocopy; cut-out by hand and hand-colored with ink, acrylic, correction pen
10 x 20.5 cm (14 pieces); 11 x 28.5 cm (one piece)
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Vũ Dân Tân’s Hong Kong Dollars combine seductive aesthetics, paper money facsimile, wordplay, and the globally recognised Charlie Chaplin icon to engage audiences on social changes occurring not only in...
Vũ Dân Tân’s Hong Kong Dollars combine seductive aesthetics, paper money facsimile, wordplay, and the globally recognised Charlie Chaplin icon to engage audiences on social changes occurring not only in Vietnam, after the country’s 1986 doi moi reorientation of its centrally planned economy to a guided market system, but also around Asia. Moreover, Vũ Dân Tân, always interested in the world beyond Vietnam, was sensitive to the historical implications of Hong Kong’s return to China, his 1997 Hong Kong Dollars marking this event. This work, presented in Hong Kong for the first time at Art Basel HK, comprises fifteen distinct hand-coloured Hong Kong Dollars, other examples of this subset in institutional collections.
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