Tseng Kwong Chi collaborated with NY legends like Keith Haring, Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and inspired artists like Ai Weiwei.
who said, 'You speak French so well, you must be an ambassador from China,'" Muna says."It's a power suit outside of China, and that gave him the entrée that he needed. People read what they want to read."
"Kwong Chi was playful," says gallerist Yancey Richardson."He was commenting on American mythmaking: the melting pot that embraces immigrants, the idea of American exceptionalism and the testosterone-driven nationalist identity.
Kwong Chi's ability to speak to multiple audiences with his work reflects the progressive home in which he was raised. Growing up in 1950s Hong Kong, Muna remembers,"Even though we had a traditional Chinese family where my paternal grandmother was the matriarch of the household, our parents were both very Westward looking.
As young artists making their way in the city, they got a flat in the East Village, which was then the centre of the city's downtown avant-garde. Soon after arriving, Kong Chi met, with whom he would collaborate on a photographic documentation project that includes more than 20,000 works, which continued until both died in 1990, just one month apart.
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