Paul Kasmin Gallery
293 10th Ave
212.563.4474
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Tseng Kwong Chi, Black Hills, Arizona, Courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery
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Apr 3, 2008 – May 3, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
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Note: There is a screening of films featuring Tseng Kwong Chi on Fri Apr 18 (6:30pm).
Without newlyweds or a bus-load of septuagenarians, photographs of "picture-perfect" places like the Taj Mahal, Niagara Falls, and Cinderella's Castle are just postcards — it's the traveler that makes the scene memorable. Tseng Kwong Chi's travel portraits at David Kasmin Gallery span a decade, but the artist — consistently dressed in a Maoist uniform in every frame — might as well have taken the series over the course of a single day. The great American vacation, stripped of its particulars, breaks down into a tour of self-effacement suffused with a good-humored fear of the Iron Curtain falling on America.
