Presented from May 2014 to October 2015 at the Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, in Paris, the travelling exhibition "Tattooers, Tattoos" will be shown from 28 September 2019 to 9 February 2020 at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in South Taiwan. Named "Tattoo" for its Taiwanese stopover, it looks back at the sources of tattooing and presents the renewal of this now permanent and globalized phenomenon.
Through an anthropological, geographical and artistic approach, the exhibition explores the different uses and functions of tattooing across cultures and periods. At the same time an ancestral practice, "identity marking", an object of fascination and contemporary artistic creation, tattooing has a multiple social and anthropological role that is the subject of various representations.
This exhibition brings together more than 120 historical and contemporary works from many parts of the world. She presents in particular about twenty silicone volumes tattooed by art masters from all over the world as well as about twenty tattoo projects painted on kakemonos. In addition to the history of tattooing and its strong anthropological roots, the exhibition highlights the artist's gesture, the exchanges between tattoo artists from all over the world and the emergence of syncretic styles.
Curators Anne & Julien, creators of the art magazine Hey ! have selected works by Taiwanese tattoo artist Yang Chin-siang[楊金祥], as well as other contemporary artists from Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United States of America.
In Kaoshiung, the exhibition will also include a section dedicated to tattoo culture in Taiwan, which will highlight the facial tattooing traditions of some Formosan indigenous peoples and more modern interpretations of this art. These additions will then become an integral part of the travelling exhibition.
In addition to Quai Branly, "Tattooers, Tattoos" was shown at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada, the Field Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of History in Los Angeles County, USA.
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