金碗 (Golden Bowl), Du Kun

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Du Kun, 金碗 (Golden Bowl)
Du Kun, 金碗 (Golden Bowl)
Du Kun
金碗 (Golden Bowl)
2010
Du Kun
born 1981
金碗 (Golden Bowl), 2010
Where object was made: Beijing or Tianjin, China
Material/technique: canvas; oil
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 130 x 260 cm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 51 3/16 x 102 3/8 in
Credit line: Courtesy of Fu Mude, Beijing, China
Accession number: EL2016.021
Not on display
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Temporal Turn: Art and Speculation in Contemporary Asia
Unpredictable, extreme weather is inextricably linked with climate change, one of the distinguishing markers of the Anthropocene, or “the Human Age.” Du Kun’s painting envisions one of the more terrifying manifestations of climate change: an ominous superstorm. A 2010 report from the National Research Council asserts “there is a strong, credible body of evidence, based on multiple lines of research, documenting that climate is changing and that these changes are in large part caused by human activities.” Yet the irony of climate change in the Anthropocene, as environmental lawyer Jedediah Purdy observes, is that “the more we understand and the more our power increases, the more our control over nature seems a precarious fantasy.”
HA 567 Contemporary Art
Unpredictable, extreme weather is inextricably linked with climate change, one of the distinguishing markers of the Anthropocene, or “the Human Age.” Du Kun’s painting envisions one of the more terrifying manifestations of climate change: an ominous superstorm. A 2010 report from the National Research Council asserts “there is a strong, credible body of evidence, based on multiple lines of research, documenting that climate is changing and that these changes are in large part caused by human activities.” Yet the irony of climate change in the Anthropocene, as environmental lawyer Jedediah Purdy observes, is that “the more we understand and the more our power increases, the more our control over nature seems a precarious fantasy.”
Temporal Turn: Art and Speculation in Contemporary Asia
Unpredictable, extreme weather is inextricably linked with climate change, one of the distinguishing markers of the Anthropocene, or “the Human Age.” Du Kun’s painting envisions one of the more terrifying manifestations of climate change: an ominous superstorm. A 2010 report from the National Research Council asserts “there is a strong, credible body of evidence, based on multiple lines of research, documenting that climate is changing and that these changes are in large part caused by human activities.” Yet the irony of climate change in the Anthropocene, as environmental lawyer Jedediah Purdy observes, is that “the more we understand and the more our power increases, the more our control over nature seems a precarious fantasy.”

Exhibitions

Temporal Turn: Art and Speculation in Contemporary Asia
Kris Ercums, curator
2016–2017

Citations

Ercums, Kris Imants. Temporal Turn: Art & Speculation in Contemporary Asia. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, 2016.