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M+, Hong Kong. Gift of DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion, 2018, © Fukuda Shizuko
Fukuda Shigeo 福田繁雄
Poster, 'Environmental Pollution' 「環境污染」海報
1973
Tu m’ after Duchamp is a mixed media painting of a notice board. Depicting photorealistic sutured tears painted using tromp l’oeil techniques, the work echoes the same visual illusions in Tu m’ (1918)—the last painting by Marcel Duchamp, the father of conceptual art. Adapted from Duchamp’s painting, this composition exaggerates the conceptual nuances and individual elements of the original work. Seemingly pinned and taped against layers of cork sheeting are two paper bags featuring the cutouts of Henri Matisse and the signature of Pablo Picasso. Emerging from the Picasso gift bag is a concertinaed strip of paper seemingly printed with circular colour swatches. A credit line painted along the edge of the bag is the self-referential title of Keung’s work. The complex and layered composition which pays homage to Tu m’ references the giants that shaped the canon of modern and contemporary art and questions the nature of artmaking.
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