Karen Kilimnik
I took pictures in Art basel Hongkong 2018. Karen Kilimnik is fantastic artist. I research about her. Kilimnik’s diverse practice is recognised for activating relationships between the traditions of culture and art history . Frequently, she combines figures and motifs from art history and collective memory – ballerinas, aristocracy귀족, the Second World War – with cultural references to music, media and film . Paris is Burning (1991)/ Is Paris Burning?(1944) from 1992 is the first work in the exhibition, occupying the ground floor space. The work has not been shown publicly since Kilimnik’s very first museum show at the ICA Philadelphia in 1992. It is an important example of her early sculptural work – a genre for which she gained attention in the late 1980s alongside artists such as Mike Kelley and Cady Noland. Other early examples include The Joker Episode of the Avengers (1991) – part of a series of works ba...