Video: Sculptures from the entrance tickets to the museum. Creativity Mia Liu
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Young Taiwanese artist Mia Liu worked for a year as a ticket seller at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum. Every day hundreds of tickets passed through her hands, and one day the girl decided that she simply could not find the best material for creativity. “It all started out as a joke,” says Mia. And it ended seriously - with exhibitions, recognition and awards.
So, Mia Liu creates sculptures from admission tickets to the famous New York Museum of Modern Art. The cost of one ticket is $ 18, and Mia says that she was always interested in what motives people are guided by when they pay to enter the museum. What do they expect to see? How do they relate to art? In the artist's view, a ticket to a museum is a kind of pass to the sacred temple of art. Unsurprisingly, with this approach, Mia saw a powerful source of inspiration in the pieces of paper.
In her first work "I am Mia Liu", the author inscribed on each of the tickets in ink her name, changing the position of the inscription on the edge of the paper. As a result, "flat drawings were transformed into three-dimensional sculptures." Miya's work won first place at the 2009 Kaohsiung Award (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).
To create the sculpture "Peach Punch!" Miyu was inspired by the tradition of punching holes in the museum's entrance tickets. She made thousands of holes in the order she needed - and she got the original openwork sculptures.
Another work by Mia Liu is "In Her Dreams". The artist created this sculpture inspired by her visit to the Botanical Gardens in Brooklyn. “After every visit there I always returned home with the desire to create my own garden. This work is an attempt to create a small garden of my dreams, for which I combined the techniques of punching holes in tickets, cutting and folding paper,”says Mia.
Mia Liu was born in 1980 in Taipei, Taiwan, where she currently lives and works. More of her work is presented here.
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