Image credit: Artist: Ju Duoqi / Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery website
Image credit: Artist: Ju Duoqi / Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery website
The Vegetable Museum Series by Ju Duoqi
on display at the Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery II – November 23, 2008 – January 22, 20009
Ju Duoqi
Ju Duoqi is a young talented Chinese artist, full of creativity. In The Vegetable Museum series, she revisits in a stunning way some masterpieces of the western painting. Making use of vegetables and food of China’s everyday life – tofu, cabbage, ginger, lotus roots, coriander, sweet potato…
“– and through digital manipulation, she presents a puzzling series of vegetable compositions representing world famous paintings like Mona Lisa, The Cene by Leonard Da Vinci, The Dream by Pablo Picasso or Marilyn Monroe by Warhol.”
Food and aliments are recurrent in Ju Duoqi’s works. She puts them out of their natural context to give them a second life. In The Vegetable Museum, the vegetables change of status: ordinary, coarse, insignificant, perishable, they become exceptional and lasting.
Born in 1973 in Chongqing, Ju Duoqi.is graduated from The Sichuan Fine Arts College. She currently lives and works in Beijing. Part of the One Child Policy generation, Ju Duoqi saw China huge transformation, the transition from an agricultural society to a post industrial society.
Colorful, creative, Ju Duoqi collages astonish. She creates her own language and destabilizes the boundary between reality and fiction. The vegetable and fictive world of Ju Duoqi is an invitation to the sensorial and provocative journey, like the artist herself. – snippet from Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery website
CLICK HERE to view additional images from Ju Duoqi’s fabulous series
#1 by Jul at November 30th, 2008
Fun work! As a vegetarian, I approve.
#2 by Carol Cooper at December 1st, 2008
Smiling here Jul
I am in total awe of Ju Duoqi’s works, totally!!
#3 by lunaticg at December 2nd, 2008
Hi!
Never thought vegetable can be in a museum before. Nice blog and thank you for sharing.
#4 by José at December 4th, 2008
Hi,
Now, this is creativity, therefore Art.
Another well known artist/photographer working with food is Carl Warner with his foodscapes.
Kind regards,
José
#5 by Archita Singh at December 5th, 2008
This is out of the box creativity!
Please visit us at the India Art Summit. Following the inaugural success of India’s international art fair in 2008, the second edition is slated for the 19th – 22nd August 2009 in New Delhi, India.
Do visit our website for more details at http://www.indiaartsummit.com
#6 by Carol Cooper at December 5th, 2008
@ lunaticg – hi and welcome to the blog, thank you for stopping by! Glad to hear you enjoyed Ju Duoqi’s
vegetable art, amazing!!
@José – Hello greetings, thank you for adding a little message in admiration of her wonderful art!! OH thanks I will go check out his foodscapes.
@Archita – Yes, definitely out of the box!! Hi and thank you so much for popping by the blog. I will inform myself about your upcoming Art Summit, thank you kindly.