Cui Guangyu (Tsui Kuang-Yu)

Executed in 1997.
This is an AP edition and each photo is signed in Chinese on the reverse. The work is accompanied by a USB master copy and a certificate of authenticity.

Taiwan, Tainan, Prototype Art Gallery, CHIEN. KUANG. HWUEI TAKING A SHORTCUT: Retrospective of Tsui Kuang-Yu 1994-2001, May 2001
US, New York, The Chelsea Art Museum, You So Crazy: Kuang-Yu Tsui's Video Works, September 2005
UK, Winchester, Winchester gallery, The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: City Crevice: Solo Exhibition by K.Y Tsui, February, 2006
Singapore, Singapore History Museum, The Peninsula: An Artist Film-Video Anthology in 3 parts + An Exhibition Part of M1 Singapore Frience Festival 2006, February to March 2006
Italy, Milano, Piazzale Segrino 1, ISOLA Art Center, Tantrika Shop, Via Pollaiuolo 2 / Soundmetak, TAIPEI–BEIRUT–MADRID-BERLIN-ISOLA, November 2008 to February 2009

This work is in generally very good condition overall. There are no apparent condition problems with this work.
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"The Welcome Rain refers to the coming of long-expected rain, usually after the sophisticated rain-praying ceremonies performed by the priests and the emperors, which will save the living things, especially agricultural plantation, from the destruction of a drought. In Tsui's case, these references are turned up-side down by the acting out of a parody, and draw up a fantasy world which deepens the absurdity of his actions."

                                                                                                                                Manray Hsu