Po Po
Po Po | |
|---|---|
| Born | Hla Oo 1957 (age 66–67) |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Performance Art |
Po Po(born 1957) is aBurmeseinstallation and performance artist. His work has been exhibited inJapan,South KoreaandBerlin.[1]
Life[edit]
Po Po was born in 1957 inPathein,Myanmar.His formal name is Hla Oo.[2]He is self-taught. Since 1987 Po Po has held many solo exhibitions, and his work has been shown at theYokohama TriennaleinYokohama,Japan, theGwangju BiennaleinGwangju,South Korea, Fukuoka Triennale inFukuoka,Japan and in theHouse of World Cultures,Berlin.[1]A May 2004 report described Po Po as one of the younger Myanmar artists who were creating impressive works in isolation and in conditions of penury.[3]However, Po Po is one of the few "contemporary" Myanmar artists who have been able to travel for participating in theFukuoka Asian Art Museum's event in 1999, for instance.[4]He was also able to take part in Saigon Open City inVietnam.[2]In June 2010 he visitedSingaporeto give a talk at theOsage Art Foundation.[5]
Work[edit]
Po Po, and another self-taught artistAung Myint,are pioneers in the performance art field in Myanmar, with Po Po staging a 30-minute seminal performance in 1997.[6]Po Po is widely regarded as Myanmar's first practitioner of this art form.[7]Many of his works are playful, impulsive, ironic and sociable. Other works are provocative and shocking.[1]His installation work "rice terrace" at theOsage Galleryin Singapore in May/June 2010 involved 1000Styrofoamboxes, each with about 100 grains of growing rice, with the boxes arranged on mud terraces in the gallery.[8]He describes his computer-installationScream of the Dead,which features an open mass grave, as a metaphor for life in Myanmar and the world today.[1]His work is thoughtful and full of depth. In his photography he employs elements ofcubism,which he considers to be the "highest state of intellectual approach" to painting.[9]A critic has said: "At best, his works reflect the lightness of being, joyfully, bearably so".[2]
References[edit]
- ^abcd"Po Po".Culturebase.February 14, 2008.Retrieved2010-11-16.
- ^abc"His works are few and far between but amazingly full of depth".The Myanmar Times.Retrieved2010-11-16.[permanent dead link]
- ^YIN KER (May 2004)."Creation in Isolation: The Life and Career of Bagyi Aung Soe".The Irrawaddy.Archived fromthe originalon 2010-11-06.Retrieved2010-11-16.
- ^Chu Yuan (March–April 2006)."Networking and Initiatives for Culture and the Arts".NY Arts Magazine.Retrieved2010-11-16.
- ^"Artist Talk by Po Po".ArtCalendr.5 Jun 2010. Archived fromthe originalon 2011-03-22.Retrieved2010-11-16.
- ^Phoebe Wong."Nothing if not liberated".Asia Art Archive.Archived fromthe originalon 2011-10-02.Retrieved2010-11-16.
- ^Iola Lenzi."Citizen of the world: recent works by Aung Myint"(PDF).Yavuz Fine Art Gallery.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2011-07-18.Retrieved2010-11-16.
- ^"Po Po's Terrace: Circumventing the Art World".BoonsCafe.June 14, 2010.Retrieved2010-11-16.
- ^"27 contemporary Southeast Asian artists featured in ASEAN-Korea photo exhibition".Art Radar Asia.July 28, 2010.Retrieved2010-11-16.
External links[edit]
- "Po Po".Magic Art Gallery.Archived fromthe originalon 2011-07-14.Retrieved2010-11-16.