{"product_id":"16215-michael-lin","title":"Michael Lin","description":"\u003cSPAN lang=EN-CA style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-language: JA\"\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-language: JA\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003eMichael Lin (*1964 in\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"st1\" \/\u003e\u003cst1:city w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003eTokyo\u003c\/st1:place\u003e\u003c\/st1:city\u003e) orchestrates monumental painting installations that reconceptualize and reconfigure public spaces. Using patterns and designs appropriated from traditional Taiwanese textiles, his work ornaments museum cafés, lobbies, galleries, and façades, transforming the institutional architecture of the public museum. His unconventional paintings invite visitors to reconsider their usual perception of those spaces and to become an integral part of the work, giving meaning to its potential as an arena for interaction and encounter. Lin, educated in the \u003cst1:country-region w:st=\"on\"\u003eUnited States\u003c\/st1:country-region\u003e, commutes between \u003cst1:city w:st=\"on\"\u003eBrussels\u003c\/st1:city\u003e, \u003cst1:city w:st=\"on\"\u003eShanghai\u003c\/st1:city\u003e, and \u003cst1:city w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003eTaipei\u003c\/st1:place\u003e\u003c\/st1:city\u003e, and his work reflects the influence of those diverse sites of cultural production and his movement between them.\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003eThis publication is the first comprehensive overview of Lin’s practice and includes texts by \u003cst1:personname w:st=\"on\"\u003eBruce Grenville\u003c\/st1:personname\u003e as well as other internationally based curators and writers who have worked with Lin in the past, such as Nicolas Bourriaud, Hou Hanru, Annette Tietenberg, and Vivian Rehberg. \u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoBodyText2 style=\"MARGIN: 3pt 0cm 0pt 1.35pt\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-CA style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP\u003e\u003cFONT size=2 face=TheSans\u003eExhibition schedule: Vancouver Art Gallery, January 23–May 2, 2010\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44874885628168,"sku":"9783775724296","price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775724296_0400a9ba-f8c7-426f-b464-8bd568012cbc.jpg?v=1744118307","url":"https:\/\/hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/16215-michael-lin","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}