Miguel Trelles "trámite HSIAO"
The Gabarron Foundation Carriage House Center for the Arts
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"trámite HSIAO" is a creative reinterpretation of Chinese scholar-official painter’s Li Kung-Lin’s (1041-1106) enlightening painting hand scroll: the “Hsiao-Ching” (Xiaojing tu) or "The Classic of Filial Piety." In it Li adapted to his age the admonitions extolling filial piety found in a Confucian text (350 – 200 B.C.). Li’s adaptation highlights social interactions in 11th Century China. The 18 compositions of "trámite HSIAO," portray demon-like creatures from a later Chinese hand scroll by Kung K’ai (1222 –ca. 1304.) The later “demons” scroll constitutes an ethnic caricature of the “other” in 13th Century China. Since in 21st Century Latinos/Hispanic in the United States are a significant “other”, Trelles has appropriated Chung K’uei’s demon countenances to convey Latinos/Hispanic “otherness” in their new setting.
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from September 11, 2008 to October 20, 2008
Opening Reception on 2008-09-10 from 19:00 to 21:00