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Lot 49
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Zhao Shaoruo

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20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Zhao Shaoruo
  • In the Name of Red Guards

  • signed and dated 1991, revised 2000, revised and printed 2005 on the reverse

  • digital black and white photograph

  • 50 by 78 3/4 in. 127 by 200 cm

Exhibited

Prague, Galerie Rudolfinium, A Strange Heaven: Contemporary Chinese Photography, September 2003 - January 2004, p. 156, illustrated

Catalogue Note

Zhao Shaoruo made his reputation in the early 1990s with works that satirized Mao Zedong by substituting his own moustached face for that of the Chairman in famous historical photographs.  He worked in the spirit of the “Political Pop” art of the time but went further by appropriating the image of Mao for himself. Zhao seeks to subvert traditional wisdom about knowledge and sagacity; with cynicism, he glorifies the surface value of fame and unabashed flattery.