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PLANET GLOBALIZATION

HUANG Hai-Hsin

  • HUANG Hai-Hsin

    (Born in 1984. Taiwan)

        River of Little Happiness, 2015
        After Art Basel, 2020

The painting River of Little Happiness depicts the society of abundance in which we indulge. The painting displays a panorama of people sharing cakes, massage sessions, a myriad of small goodies, amusement parks, etc. But these scenes are interspersed with dramas of all kinds—attacks, earthquakes, riots—while we can see in the backdrop fossil fuel and nuclear energy factories at work.

The artist talks about the experience on social networks that connect her simultaneously to moments of pleasure and horrific events. The canvas becomes like a screen addressing the “mixed feelings” provided by the globalized culture of social networks.

The pencil drawing gives another aerial view, where a multitude of characters are running in all directions, for a reason that is quite different from the painting in front of it: the desinstallation of an art fair. Art Basel Miami is a symbol of cultural and market globalization.

In the drawing, the fair has just closed its gate to the public and the art professionals are rushing to clear the space. These kinds of hectic scenes are recurrent in the art market on a worldwide scale, with an opening in Asia coming on the heels of the earlier opening of a fair in the States, bringing with it its assembly of international galleries, collectors, journalists, and other globalized people. Except for this year, when they all stayed home due to COVID.

Huang Hai-Hsin, After Art Basel, 2020, pencil on paper, 193×488 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
Huang Hai-Hsin, After Art Basel (partial), 2020, pencil on paper, 193×488 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Taipei Fine Arts Museum.

 

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