Dinh Q. Lê | Screenprints | November 5, 2020 - January 2, 2021
Fragile Springs: Burma (Myanmar), 2012
silkscreen print from portfolio Fragile Springs
14 x 17"
Edition of 21
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Fragile Springs: Iran, 2012
silkscreen print from portfolio Fragile Springs
14 x 17"
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Fragile Springs: Iraq, 2012
silkscreen print from portfolio Fragile Springs
14 x 17"
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Fragile Springs: Libya, 2012
silkscreen print from portfolio Fragile Springs
14 x 17"
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Fragile Springs: Tibet, 2012
silkscreen print from portfolio Fragile Springs
14 x 17"
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Fragile Springs: Thailand, 2012
silkscreen print from portfolio Fragile Springs
14 x 17"
Edition of 21
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Fragile Springs: Tunisia, 2012
silkscreen print from portfolio Fragile Springs
14 x 17"
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Fragile Springs: Ukraine, 2012
silkscreen print from portfolio Fragile Springs
14 x 17"
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Fragile Springs: Yemen, 2012
silkscreen print from portfolio Fragile Springs
14 x 17"
Edition of 21
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Fragile Springs: Vietnam, 2012
silkscreen print from portfolio Fragile Springs
14 x 17"
Edition of 21
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Dinh Q. Lê
Fragile Springs
November 5, 2020 - January 2, 2021
The Gallery presents Dinh Q. Lê’s Fragile Springs series of screenprints in our backroom gallery. The Fragile Springs series was inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 and includes images of concurrent international protest movements in Burma, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Thailand, Tibet, Tunisia, Ukraine, Vietnam and Yemen. The prints are available individually or as a complete portfolio set of ten.
The vividly colorful graphic screenprints were inspired by the artist’s research. “I spent time that weekend browsing around on the Internet and became intrigued by how each revolution had been assigned a name and a color,” says Lê. “There was the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the Green Revolution in Iran, the Pink Revolution in Yemen, the Red Revolution in Thailand and the Saffron Revolution in Burma. It was interesting to see how the use of a single color gave such a collective sense to each movement. But I also kept asking myself: Who are the people in the crowd? Whom do I look for that I can connect to somehow? When you look at a crowd, you always look for the one person whom you connect to.”
Dinh Q. Lê creates conceptually based multimedia work that reflects on the complex history of Vietnam, issues of war, displaced populations, and how non-western cultures are depicted in western media. In 2018-19 the San Jose Art Museum presented True Journey is Return, the largest exhibition in the U.S. in over a decade. Lê’s work was shown in the 2013 Carnegie International (Pittsburgh, PA), dOCUMENTA (13) (Kassel, Germany), Singapore Art Museum (Singapore), Kyiv Biennial (Kyiv, Ukraine), a Projects 93 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY) and a critically acclaimed one-person exhibition at the Asia Society in New York. Lê’s work is included in numerous permanent collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, Ford Foundation (New York, NY), Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA), Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia) and the Zabludowicz Collection (London, England).