TERENCE KOH. CAPTAIN BUDDHA
With his spectacular performances and intense installations, Terence Koh has become a widely noticed gesamtkunstwerk within only a short time. Unlike any other artist, Koh, who is of Chinese-Canadian provenance, knows how to transfer post-minimalist and body art influences of the seventies into a universe of his own in which decadence and deliberate infringement prevail.
In the Schirn, the viewer will be invited to accompany Koh on a journey through a labyrinth which is to take him through the world -- India, China, Burma, Belgium, Africa -- into the nirvana on his search for himself. White objects -- a hand, strings, buckets, a toilet, a dead bird, a flag -- in a white room striking us as magic exemplify these explorations and draw the viewer into a pale world. Koh compares himself to the captain in Moby Dick: "I try to find the White Whale in these white objects, yet come upon nothingness in the end."
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With his spectacular performances and intense installations, Terence Koh has become a widely noticed gesamtkunstwerk within only a short time. Unlike any other artist, Koh knows how to transfer post-minimalist and body art influences of the seventies into a universe of his own in which decadence and deliberate infringement prevail.
The publication invites to accompany Koh on a journey through a labyrinth which is to take him through the world -- India, China, Burma, Belgium, Africa -- into the nirvana on his search for himself.