The series Fake Antiques, Fake Evidence, and Legends of
Liao Yibai pokes fun at China’s history of power struggles, misinformation and attempts to re-write its own past. Each piece is hand-welded and placed upon a pseudo-antique pedestal, claiming a position of authenticity that alludes to the thriving fake antique industry in China. Many of the works are replications of vases and heirlooms dating back to the Ming, Qing and Yuan dynasties. Yibai then gives them a clever modern twist by adding details like nuclear clouds, swine flu viruses and acid rain.”
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完璧に時代を切り取っている1枚
endilletante:National Geographic, august 1960 : Pekin, a pictorial record by Brian Brake from Magnum.
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Don Quixote, Svetlin Vassilev
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