The 75th Anniversary of the foundation of the PRC is this Tuesday, 1 October 2024 - and Hong Kong's public buildings are festooned with flags, even inside museums. Surely, coinciding with the anniversary as soft/strategic marketing is an Andy Warhol Mao on the cover of this month''s Gagosian gallery magazine*. The article written by the gallery's Jessica Beck discusses this series of work. Warhol completed four series (at different sizes/colours) of Mao silkscreen/paintings immediately after U.S. President Richard Nixon''s 1972 visit to China - continuing a series of work depicting famous people.
 
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John Batten
Art critic, Hong Kong
 
*Gagosian magazine cover image: Andy Warhol, Mao, 1972 (detail), acrylic, silkscreen ink, and pencil on linen, 447x345.1cm, copyright The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, Inc/ARS, New York
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—————————————————————————————————————   歡迎閱讀最新一期AICAHK通訊。   在香港各區,以香港藝術家為主的最新展覽有:梁凱雅(安全口)、楊學德(馬凌畫廊)、鄧廣燊(爍樂畫廊),和周俊輝(當代唐人藝術中心)。同時在Rossi & Rossi 有尼泊爾當代藝術先鋒兼作家Lain Singh Bangdel(1919-2002)、Empty Gallery有居住於美國的日本藝術家增鹽太朗,和白立方Margaux Ogden。   本年度十月一日星期二是中華人民共和國成立75週年,香港到處都掛滿了國旗,連博物館內也有。高古軒畫廊季刊以安迪·沃荷《毛澤東》為封面,與這個紀念日同時出現, 成為軟策略式行銷。當年沃荷在美國前總統尼克遜1972年訪華後創作了四個不同尺寸和顏色的《毛澤東》絲網印刷系列——沃荷繼續他的名人創作。   你可以閱讀我們為你預備的最新藝評和回顧。   最後,你亦可以在社交媒體上追蹤我們(@aica_hk)。同時我們就網站安全和網域進行了更新,網域地址現在有些微不同。請注意看你書籤裏的AICAHK網站有沒有更新。   希望你喜歡我們的通訊!   約翰百德 藝評人,香港 |  | 
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