電音禪境 (Zen Temple of Techno)

Du Kun, artist

born 1981

電音禪境 (Zen Temple of Techno), 2017

Where object was made: China

Material/technique: canvas; oil

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 210 x 140 cm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 82 11/16 x 55 1/8 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 84 1/4 x 56 3/4 x 3 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Gift of Hope and Marshall Talbot in memory of their daughter Tracy Lynn Mopper

Accession number: 2017.0058

On display: Michaelis Gallery

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This painting depicts Julia Govor (see image below), a Russian-born electronic musician who got her start performing in a small military town in Abkhazia. Since moving to New York City a few years ago, she has emerged as an innovative force of electro/experimental techno. According to the website Mixcloud, at the core of her live performance is “an ever-present element of emotional truth and a quest to redefine her audience’s relationship with beat.” Like other large-scale portraits in this series, Du Kun intentionally deifies cutting-edge musicians as architectonic embodiments of East Asian religious temples and grottoes as a way of combining his deep love of contemporary music with his spiritual life.