NYAB Event - Tseng Kwong Chi "Body Painting with Keith Haring and Bill T. Jones"

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At Paul Kasmin Gallery
Media: Photography

Paul Kasmin Gallery presents an exhibition of photographs taken by the American artist Tseng Kwong Chi in 1983 in collaboration with the choreographer Bill T. Jones and the artist Keith Haring. Shown in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Tseng's and Haring's deaths, these striking large-format photographs celebrate the spirit of interconnected creativity that pulsed throughout the East Village in the 1980's.

Although the photographs appear to freeze Jones's spontaneous motion, they were actually carefully staged by Tseng. As in many of his other photographic series - East Meets West and The Expeditionary Self-Portrait Series for example - these works depict Tseng's thoughtfully composed and often playful investigations of truth, fiction and identity.

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