future history 1-12
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Contemporary item# 807048
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yasumi bijutsuya
808.368.5275
each print in the edition is $1000. unframed
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by honolulu artist scott groeniger; archival pigment prints on watercolor paper; 2009. yasumi has secured the first edition of a twelve print portfolio to be produced and limited to only five total editions; prints are vertical format, 24 by 44 inches; all prints are signed and numbered by the artist. using textures and abstractions photographed in china, scott is examining the present culture and lifestyle of the ancient cradle of chinese civilization, shanxi province, and the current cultural and political cradle which is beijing. shanxi province has a deep and rich cultural history that is thousands of years old. taiyuan, the capital of shanxi province, has recently emerged as a major industrial city, fueling china's growth with much-needed energy resources. the entire body of images weave together fragments and pieces from the present and the past found in these two extraordinary, historically-significant places in china. the entire body of work ultimately suggests a rich cultural past overlaid on a future which is both full of challenges and hope as china transitions into an international superpower. all of the prints in this series are archival inkjet prints (canon lucia) made from digital photographic source files. each print measures 24 by 43 inches and is printed on hahnemühle photo ragfine art watercolor paper.
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I Do. Well I Don't.
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Contemporary item# 713254
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"Hawai'i knows that Mainland franchises erode the foundations of its uniqueness. Struck with a kind of psychic paralysis, Hawai'i responds with the hugely popular window sticker: "Ainokea, I do what I like." With the case all but closed, how can art respond to such ambivalence? Kirsten Rae Simonsen and Scott Groeniger's "I Do. Well I Don't" answers directly. With a globally spoken style of "visual pidgin" they create an island from abstracted personal, technical and commercial elements that allude to street and resource location maps, social networks and a compelling link/tension between childhood and adult modes of personal transportation. Their rich range of intentional smudges, tints, smears and aborted erasures grounds the psychology of the piece: These are subconscious Hawai'i's repressed questions of sustainability, energy and land, which are constantly subjected to threats and promises of (re)development." - David A.M. Goldberg, Honolulu Advertiser 2007.11.4; Kirsten Rae Simonsen, Honolulu artist and lecturer at the University of Hawaii, and Honolulu artist Scott Groeniger; mixed media on paper, 12 by 19 inches; 2007.
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