Nguyen-Hatsushiba is considered to be one of the most exciting Asian artists in recent years. His works combines visual beauty and attitude of calm pursuit to social problems that continues to capture the heart of many people in the world. '"The Globe Project: Garden of Globes" consists of more than one hundred sacrificial gifts made of paper and bamboo, objects waiting to be communicated with the deceased, forming a realm between the physical and the metaphysical world, and blue space as a metaphor for water. It embodies the spiritual world that confronts the chaotic world reworked by human hands, in which twenty-five globes on solidly fixed stands form a garden. A glance through the hole into the inside of each individual sphere reveals a unique view of a place on the earth representing a particular time and the history of a fleeing people. In addition, the atmosphere that usually surrounds us has turned inwards. Walking around the "Garden of Globes" is both a physical and a visual act that occurs in an intermediate sphere (the lost Garden of Eden?), the location of which cannot be unambiguously defined. The work is a "collection of history of political refugees", and a complex statement, to be experienced symbolically, of the "absurdity of how it continues to exist."' - Susanne Neubauer

Artist biography is provided in the present catalogue.

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Onsite

Location code
MON.NHJ
Language

Chinese - Simplified, 

English

Publication/Creation date

2008

ISBN / ISSN

Nil

No of copies

2

Content type

artist monograph, 

catalogue

Chapter headings

Flooded Paradise - Susanne NEUBAUER

Body as a carrier of memory and message: parallel to some Japanese post-war art - Yukie KAMIYA, 神谷幸江

Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba: The Globe Project in Beijing
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Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba: The Globe Project in Beijing