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An Te Liu: Functional Aesthetics
An Online Supplement to the Summer 2011 Print Edition of Canadian Art
An Te Liu BLAST 2011 Courtesy MKG127
In the summer 2011 print edition feature, “Modern Man,” critic John Bentley Mays explores the work of Toronto artist An Te Liu, whose architecturally inclined practice refashions utilitarian objects—from staples to air purifiers, and even a suburban bungalow—into a layered critique of modernist ideals and consumer values. It’s a process that reveals, as Mays puts it, “the changed, charged space between objects and their representations.” Here, a bonus portfolio of images recaps Liu’s study of form and function from the mid-1990s to his latest solo exhibition in May 2011 at MKG127 in Toronto.
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