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Zhou Xiaohu 周嘯虎
The Gooey Gentleman 蜜糖先生
2002
Digital art pioneer Zhou Xiaohu’s work blends experimental computer manipulation with stop-frame animation and performance art. In The Gooey Gentleman, the artist’s body is both stage and canvas for a performance animated in ink and brush. The charming story is a melodramatic love affair that unfolds between the artist and a bikini-clad doodle he paints on his naked chest. The timeless battle of the sexes makes metaphysical twists and turns as the woman hangs on his chest. Roles are suddenly reversed when a painted man crawls out of a woman’s belly button.
Zhou’s characteristic humour is embodied in the interplay between the painted characters and their human canvases, and also by a clumsy rendition of a famous Shanghainese love song by Zuoxiao Zuzhou. The accessible visual language of The Gooey Gentleman belies its impressive technical prowess and creative readings of artwork, materiality, and the relationship between artist and muse.
Zhou’s characteristic humour is embodied in the interplay between the painted characters and their human canvases, and also by a clumsy rendition of a famous Shanghainese love song by Zuoxiao Zuzhou. The accessible visual language of The Gooey Gentleman belies its impressive technical prowess and creative readings of artwork, materiality, and the relationship between artist and muse.
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