“Photography by Kata Legrady. Disney – Mickey, Pearl Harbor 8, 2013 (Disney Paper Mask Fitted On Original Gasmask, C – print, on diasec)” / Pékin Fine Arts / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14101
More WTF artworks which short-circuited my logical unit—Mickey and gas masks. Kata Legrady’s art work is a chance encounter between objects from two distinct universes: weapons of mass destruction vs that of childhood memories.
This work speaks to me mostly because I am very against warfare in the international arena—politicians candy-coating messages to instil suffer and pains to others and treating everything as child’s play. Another messaging I see is that messaging with political agenda is being inserted into mainstream media with questionable ethics. Whether these are the artist’s original intentions is unclear, but what is clear is that it summarises the current state of affairs very well.
Kata Legrady was born in 1974 at Bacs in Hungary. She studied music and singing at the Pecs Conservatoire before finally opting for the plastic arts. She lives and works in Hanover, Germany.
(Pardon the reflection. Nothing I can do about it)
Kata Legrady (b. 1974, Barcs, Hungary)
Disney – Mickey, Pearl Harbor 8, 2013
Disney Paper Mask Fitted On Original Gasmask
C – print, on diasec
125 x 174 x 2.8 cm / 180 x 250 x 2.8 cm
2011
Edition 5 / Edition 3
# Pékin Fine Arts
No. 241 Cao Changdi Village, Cui Ge Zhuang Xiang, Chaoyang District
100015 Beijing
China
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-05-23T17:37:42+0800
+ Dimensions: 2212 x 3076
+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/8.0
+ Focal Length: 40 mm
+ ISO: 640
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E
+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.14101
+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“Photography by Kata Legrady. Disney – Mickey, Pearl Harbor 8, 2013 (Disney Paper Mask Fitted On Original Gasmask, C – print, on diasec)” / Pékin Fine Arts / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14101
/ #Photojournalism #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLFineArt #Crazyisgood #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #Art #FineArt #ArtBasel #ABHK #KataLegrady #PekinFineArts #Mickey #Disney #gasmask #WTF
“Photography by Kata Legrady. Disney – Mickey, Pearl Harbor 8, 2013 (Disney Paper Mask Fitted On Original Gasmask, C – print, on diasec)” / Pékin Fine Arts / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14101
More WTF artworks which short-circuited my logical unit—Mickey and gas masks. Kata Legrady’s art work is a chance encounter between objects from two distinct universes: weapons of mass destruction vs that of childhood memories.
This work speaks to me mostly because I am very against warfare in the international arena—politicians candy-coating messages to instil suffer and pains to others and treating everything as child’s play. Another messaging I see is that messaging with political agenda is being inserted into mainstream media with questionable ethics. Whether these are the artist’s original intentions is unclear, but what is clear is that it summarises the current state of affairs very well.
Kata Legrady was born in 1974 at Bacs in Hungary. She studied music and singing at the Pecs Conservatoire before finally opting for the plastic arts. She lives and works in Hanover, Germany.
(Pardon the reflection. Nothing I can do about it)
Kata Legrady (b. 1974, Barcs, Hungary)
Disney – Mickey, Pearl Harbor 8, 2013
Disney Paper Mask Fitted On Original Gasmask
C – print, on diasec
125 x 174 x 2.8 cm / 180 x 250 x 2.8 cm
2011
Edition 5 / Edition 3
# Pékin Fine Arts
No. 241 Cao Changdi Village, Cui Ge Zhuang Xiang, Chaoyang District
100015 Beijing
China
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-05-23T17:37:42+0800
+ Dimensions: 2212 x 3076
+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/8.0
+ Focal Length: 40 mm
+ ISO: 640
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E
+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.14101
+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“Photography by Kata Legrady. Disney – Mickey, Pearl Harbor 8, 2013 (Disney Paper Mask Fitted On Original Gasmask, C – print, on diasec)” / Pékin Fine Arts / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14101
/ #Photojournalism #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLFineArt #Crazyisgood #SMLProjects
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #Art #FineArt #ArtBasel #ABHK #KataLegrady #PekinFineArts #Mickey #Disney #gasmask #WTF