Limited Edition: 30 editions. Pigment prints on Lambda gloss, numbered and signed.
price
200 euros
Nowadays, Mao Ze Dong’s figurines have lost their first function: to serve Mao’s cult of personality. China has moved, and the time when Mao was in power seems far away. The deconstruction of his cult, under various forms, has become a source of creativity for the Chinese artists.
The face of Mao Zedong, whose name meant avant-garde, trend, revolt, independance, has been distorted, rubbed out, then coded, and now comes in a variety of features, never looking the same.
No one within the new chinese generation is able to identify which of all sculpted faces looks the most like Mao Zedong. By taking close-up pictures of Mao’s figurines, Guo An questions his imprint in the Chinese collective memory.
