Mum after Duchamp: A Brief Chronicle of Tsang Yin Hung’s Artistic Career

	TSANG Yin Hung with the book “Engineering Drawing” (工程制圖), Guangzhou, 1965


TSANG Yin Hung with the replicated book “Engineering Drawing” (工程制圖), Hong Kong, 2005	“The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp” Edited by Thierry DeDuve. Copyright 1991. Second Printing. Published by MIT Press. Paperback; 488 pages. The textbook of “Technical Drawing” (工程制圖) was recreated by painting on the surface of this book.

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in-situ, “Irreality”, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, 2005

KWAN Sheung Chi, TSANG Yin Hung
Mum after Duchamp: A Brief Chronicle of Tsang Yin Hung’s Artistic Career

Acrylic on book, photograph, inkjet print on paper, handmade wood frame
2005

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This piece was made after “Teapoy”, a photo of the artist’s mother holding a textbook of technical drawing was found proving the story told in “Teapoy”. With this work, the artist tried to recreate the textbook and the history of his mother as an artist, referring to the common background she shares with Marcel Duchamp, they both studied technical drawing and it influenced their art.