1978-0628-0-PC

Accession number

1978-0628-0-PC

Title

Untitled

Description

Two rectangular blocks formed, respectively, by the words "liberty" (เสรีภาพ) and "gun barrel" (กระบอกปืน), above rows of the repeated word "human" (คน). In purple.

Categories

Concrete poetry (บทกวีรูปธรรม)

Colour

Inscriptions

Signed and dated "1978" below the poem.

Year

1978

Date

Unknown

Dimensions

14.4 x 15.4

Dimensions with frame

N/A

Condition

Foxing. In good condition.

Medium

Felt-tip pen on paper

Current location

Collection of The Tang Chang Private Museum

All known reproductions.

David Teh, ed., “Misfits”: Pages from a loose-leaf modernity (Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2017), 58.
[Caption:
Tang Chang, Untitled, 1978.
Gel pen on card, 15.4 x 14.5 cm.
Legend: เสรีภาพ = freedom / freiheit,
กระบอกปืน = gun barrel, คน = people]

Exhibition history.

Social Factory: 10th Shanghai Biennale. Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China. November 23, 2014–March 31, 2015.

"Misfits": Pages from a loose-leaf modernity. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany. April 21–July 3, 2017.

Annotations for selected works.

Semi-gloss. Could be considered card rather than paper.