Der Kunstler Mu Pan.

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German to English translation

The artist Mu Pan, born in 1976 in Taiwan as a child of a military family provided, his military service. His favorite artistic subjects are military motives, especially the Japanese occupation of China's off-shore island of 1895 to 1945. It Mu Pan is married to a Japanese woman, whose father the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima survived. He and his wife have lived for 15 years in New York City borough of Brooklyn in a multicultural population mix.
Especially, the hard-working artist's world's first solo show, surprisingly, in a small gallery in Cologne's old town. This is also the fact that the gallery owner Petra Hewett-Herrmann and Jens Herrmann long lived in different places and directed their return to Cologne, their attention to distant cultures. From the first look at Mu Pan's work, they have the artistic potential of the sovereign artist and powerful painter recognized. For extremely safe figurative sense Mu Pan comes a craftsmanship that masterfully combines the narrative dimension of Chinese art traditions with the radical clarity of German Expressionism. History and stories are at the center of Mu Pan's dramatic and witty compositions. Images, myths and symbols from the history of China are mixed with fantastic terror scenarios. Because warriors are in the encounter with dogs and frogs at ridiculous creatures. Since stumbling monstrously strange-animal-human mutations, such as in images of Hieronymus Bosch by a disjointed world. And lamb in human forms, which are the same butcher and slaughtered, the whole drama is expressed.
The exhibition in the art area H & H Mu Pan is "heavenly book of China". The artist shows the characters in it that have ruined his eyes China: pompous generals, the last empress, who put down the Boxer Rebellion, or in the Gang of Four had become notorious widow Mao Tse-tung. He also builds a bridge to U.S. history: to cowboys, the bulls of violence and murder Indians. The connecting thread is that all cultures and generations spanning understanding that the needs of boundless human sacrifices.
ArtSpace H & H, Butter Market 17, Mon-Fri Clock 13-19, Sat 12-16 Clock, to 19 May 2011