Who Have I looked into that relates to my two culture themes?
Australian Artist Xenia Hausner is a portrait painter who produces big scale paintings. Xenia Hausner has made a fresh assessment of this broad realm of globalised modernity. What seems at first to be a snapshot of daily life is in truth the multiple refraction and reflection of life in a world in which cultures are entwined in another. Xenia Hausner is mainly concerned with the seismographic recognition of a mutual curiosity and attraction between west and east. Hausner’s typically expressive techniques does not offer distinct and realistically interpretable scenes.
Rather she manipulates elements from various regions and cultural environments into a new fragmented reality. The asian and European girl in school uniforms, the three western women in front of a North Korean propaganda poster and a young couple beneath Chinese lanterns and neon lights. Hausner has simulated all these scenes in her studio using models. By looking at Hausner’s re-enactments in her paintings clearly resemble China as east and europe as west. Again you have the two cultural societies in a juxtaposition mode where the two cultures are trying to contrast with each other.
So how does Xenia Hausner relate to my Cross culture themes?
Hausner relates back to my degree show where you have myself playing with Chinese people with a game of Mahjong acting as juxtapositions. Right now this theme of the cross-cultures of England and China will continue into development with my current work.
