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Background to the Theater...

Step by step, The Teatre Three Taihu Stones has developed from a image to a sculpture... The first image was created in Thupelo workshop in Cape Town 2007.


First, two Chinese monks became actors on stage in a painting in Cape Town...



... and the loudspeaker tower "Information, entered the stage




... in many different ways.





here as a dry point print...





as a painting I had in a show in Bijing, "Calling The Lower World" 2008






	Two artists one from Hangzhou the other from Suzhou control everything from the stage you see them dance forward and to the side forward and to the side Meine Damen und Herren! Mesdames et Messieurs! You hear everything through the cracked roof three stars you can see All will be revealed! Slowly the moon rocks the river’s embrace	两位艺术家其一来自杭州其二来自苏州在舞台之上掌控万物君不见其舞前舞后迤逦左右前后, 左右 “先生们, 女士们” “先生们, 女士们” 通过破碎的屋顶你听到一切君可见万物呈现三颗星星月儿徐徐招展映入河之依恋

MY FIRST MEETING with the photographer Zhang Xuejiao was a comedy of errors. I was attending an opening day event for a photographic exhibition in district 798, the huge art zone in Beijing. Zhang Xuejiao was standing there with a glass of wine in her hand and, as I made to introduce myself, she thought I was toasting her health. It was an auspicious start. Two weeks later Zhang Xuejiao was in my studio to shoot some portraits of me for this book. When she showed me the result of her work, I saw, in a series of rapid-fire images, how I was gradually becoming enveloped in the linen cloth that I was embroidering and painting – and so the idea was born to make a stage with moving puppets, like a real stage, a sculpture.



Photo © Zhang Xuejiao


Phto © Zhang Xuejiao







	Two Actors Bronze, linen cloth 90 cm 2009–10 Loudspeaker Tower Painted wood, bronze 22 x 24 x 56,3 cm 2007 两名演员青铜，亚麻布 90 cm 2009–10 扩音器塔木质着色，青铜 22 x 24 x 56,3 cm 2007

Theatre Three Thaihu Stones...
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