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[cristine wang <cristinewang@yahoo.com>]

For Immediate Release

"FREE ALBA!"

A series of large-scale photographs by Eduardo
Kac
commissioned by the 

Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan 

Dec. 8-Jan. 6, 2002.

The "Free Alba!" series will be part of a
city-wide public art project that will present
artworks inside large shipping containers
scattered throughout
the city of Kaohsiung. Kac's "Free Alba!" flag
will be seen flying on top of the artist's
container. In addition, the installation will
also include a series of "GFP Bunny-Paris
Intervention" posters which were posted by Kac
all over Paris in 2000. 

These posters have also been shown in two gallery
exhibitions: *Dystopia + Identity in the Age of
Global Communications*, curated by Cristine Wang,
Tribes Gallery, New York, 2000; and *Under the
Skin*, curated by Sške Dinkla, Renate Heidt
Heller and Cornelia Brueninghaus-Knubel, Wilhelm
Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, 2001.

In the "Free Alba!" (2001) series of photographs,

Kac reappropriates some of these stories and
recontextualizes them, exhibiting the productive
tension that is generated when contemporary art
enters 
the realm of daily news. If in the 1960s artists
purchased space in newspapers in order to
intervene in the media, today an artist such as
Eduardo Kac
creates a work with such power and presence in
the physical world that the global news media
features the work and discussions about it. While
"GFP Bunny" was also prominently featured on
international television, radio and magazines,
for "Free Alba!" Kac focuses on newspapers as a
medium that presents multiple stories
simultaneoulsy, thus contextualizing one in
relation to the other. The photographs in this
series dramatize the fact that the reception of
"GFP Bunny" was equally complex, taking place
across cultures and in diverse locations.


Throughout 2000, news of Eduardo Kac's artwork
"GFP Bunny" (2000) started to appear on the front
page of newspapers such as Le Monde and Boston
Globe. "GFP Bunny" is a transgenic artwork
comprised of the creation of a green fluorescent
rabbit, the public dialogue generated by the
project, and the social integration of the
rabbit. Sharing headlines alongside 
articles about the 2000 Olympics and US
presidential debates, Kac's "GFP Bunny" story was
appropriated by news organizations worldwide,
often generating new narratives that, both
intentionally and unintentionally, reinstated or
overlooked the facts. 


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Eduard Kac is represented by:
Julia Friedman Gallery
E-mail:  info@juliafriedman.com
http://www.juliafriedman.com

More information on the artist:
http://www.ekac.org/



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best regards, cristine wang

mobile: 917.318.0081
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