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Tseng Yuho 曾佑和
Hibernal Forest 寒林
1990
Tseng Yuho was a scholar of Asian art history, a calligrapher, and a celebrated artist. Born in Peking, she learned painting with an imperial prince and went on to study at the prestigious Fu Jen Catholic University, eventually emigrating to the United States in 1949.
In her art practice, Tseng drew from a broad range of visual resources that she encountered in her work as an art historian, attempting to integrate multiple elements from Chinese art into a single entity. Hibernal Forest is representative of this effort and is an example of her signature dsui hua canvases. Dsui hua, meaning to assemble, or to collect paintings, is an ink collage technique that Tseng pioneered. Here, she blends ink with acrylics and aluminium foil on handmade paper. A misaligned grid of paper squares highlights the composition’s surface and resembles a patina on archaeological artefacts. The raw paper edges exposed at the top and bottom and the layer of aluminium that shines through the surface heighten Tseng’s emphasis on materiality.
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