{"id":639,"date":"2010-04-22T21:28:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T01:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2010-04-22T21:44:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T01:44:36","slug":"caroline-chiu-polaroids-as-chinese-ink-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Chiu: Polaroids as Chinese Ink Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Caroline Chiu: Polaroids as Chinese Ink Painting<br \/>\nAn installation from A Chinese Wunderkammer<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nd.edu\/~sniteart\/exhibits\/index.html\">Snite Museum of Art<\/a><br \/>\nMilly and Fritz Kaeser Mestrovic Studio Gallery<br \/>\nMarch 14 to April 25, 2010<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-640\" title=\"Chiu_2933\" src=\"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Chiu_2933.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><DIV align=justify>These photographs are taken from Hong Kong artist Caroline Chiu\u2019s larger series entitled Dreaming: A Chinese Wunderkammer.  Wunderkammer were 17th- and 18th-century European \u201cwonder rooms\u201d or \u201ccabinets of curiosity\u201d\u2013\u2013some of the earliest known \u201cmuseums\u201d\u2013\u2013which contained specimens reflecting the natural world, anthropology, archaeology, relics, and art.   The late Qing emperor Qianlong, known for his passion for the arts, also pursued this type of collecting.<br \/>\nIn Chiu\u2019s case, she collects, by photography, objects representing the material culture of traditional China: bonsai, scholar\u2019s rocks, flowers, artworks depicting the animal zodiac, and, here, goldfish.  Her choice of subjects makes reference to historical Chinese culture; her graphic photographic images of goldfish suggest the brushstrokes of traditional Chinese ink painting and the sweeping abstract shapes of Chinese writing.<br \/>\nBecause the images were taken with a rare 20 x 24 inch Polaroid camera\u2014for which film is no longer manufactured\u2013\u2013the exhibition is also an elegy to the era of Polaroid cameras and film.  See the review in the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbendtribune.com\/article\/20100327\/INTHEBEND\/100329549\/-1\/XML\"> South Bend Tribune<\/a>. <DIV><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Polaroids-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Polaroids-2\" width=\"956\" height=\"407\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-671\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Chiu: Polaroids as Chinese Ink Painting An installation from A Chinese Wunderkammer Snite Museum of Art Milly and Fritz Kaeser Mestrovic Studio Gallery March 14 to April 25, 2010 These photographs are taken from Hong Kong artist Caroline Chiu\u2019s larger series entitled Dreaming: A Chinese Wunderkammer. Wunderkammer were 17th- and 18th-century European \u201cwonder rooms\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/?p=639\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Caroline Chiu: Polaroids as Chinese Ink Painting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20x24-featured-artists","category-20x24-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}