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Show a Sunday, August 19, 2007 HERALD DAILY the medallions are hung and somehow this big spaghetti pile thats a very powerful part of it to me. It's much more complex because he has this here. It's as though all our fortunes are enmeshed, and yet if you untangle k and were to make one string, you'd see that we're all separate. So k gives me an experience of being in the world-- It gives me so much to think about," Gu was bora and raised in Maoera Communist China and came of age during the Cultural Revolution. In the 1980s, he put on his first solo show in China an installation of massive ink brush paintings of madeup Chinese characters. The paintings caught the attention of officials bi the governments Propagan-d- a . , Department. "They were puzzled by characters. They thought about some hidden meaning behind k," Gu said in an interview from Shanghai, : ea wr t ; . . i . X - China. Life under an oppressive regime taught him to welcome a range of reactions to his ait- - v r t t . i -- . work. . "I fed the more diverse, the better, he said. "I don't want (it. tobe)just bkeaCukural Revo- - ' kit ion. Mao wishes one million : people to have one brain, one thought, which is his thought. That's Mao's ambition. -1 want to have different opinions." ...7k Gu moved to the linked States in 1987 and these days .. divides his time between BrookJMCOlXAMOciMad Prm lyn and Shanghai Hair isn't the only human material wkh Artist Wmda Gil's "united nations: the green house," a massive banner made out of hair, stretches the length of the foyer at Dartmouth College's Baker-Berr- y " '. which hes worked. A 1993 .'7 Library in Hanover, NIL series, oedipus refound," used powdered human placenta (a , show might turn away prospec- hair purchased from wig facto--. traditionalChinese medicine), art in unexpected places.Mii- - ; Mood and semea He said he 7 tive students. Laura Savler. "When I seum director Brian Kennedy ries in China and India. Rising chose human hair for united of it, I dont think of that other . from a spaghettilike mass and "When 1 find a piece of dis- said placing "the green house" Continued, from Cl nations to break from convenone ievd above 1930s-erconnected hair on or near my lunging in long loops on both meaning. I jtist think of, like, 1 materials and to bring ' tional food Mexican or am of the hair." murals see sides central to hairs," different disgusted. person, closely library's by painter Admiration: ... Now we are surrounding Jose Clemente Orozco was he said. corridor, k elicits a generally people closer to his work; over . 7- - Maybe they're looking for a intent ionaL the years, 4 million people have ourselves wilh the same gross , "Im amazed by k, said positive reaction. : donated hair to installations "I think the braid is more Sandra Michael, a visitor from substance? And while we are We've created this sym- piece of themselves. ' Hair for the in the United States, Canada, New York who went to the , trying to study no less!" he interesting," said Sayier, the metry between an artist who student. "It also, like, reminds wrote foot banner was collected over, was critiqued as an atheist and exhibit looking for the coarse Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Israel and several European a communist, who was neither, locks of African-AmericHe said the millions of dollars me more of what I think the several months last year from but from the Mexican Revolu42,000 haircuts of Dartmouth hair, but couldn't pick them out. he heard Dartmouth had paid 7 artist is getting at and less of ' countries. I had kind of an ambition to for the works made him want like, eeww." students, faculty, staff and local tion in the 20s, and then an art- "It shows me that there is no just, ' Stainless steel medallions his own hair out. ist who came from communist to bring aH people together .. to residents in Hanover. It was difference because I can't see tear try ' ' for nw'wak, so its kind of an Kennedy said Gu was paid , attached to sections of braid shaped to China, where work- and atheistic China, you know,' k. .7 Someone who can create idea (to) try to but is neither," Kennedy said. ers in Gu's Shanghai studio dyed in electric colors bear the something like this, to think of a fraction of the rumored mil- The banners green house" dye3 and shaped the locks into unify 7 mankind, he said. He something like this and then to lions, a six figure sum starting names of 207 countries. Writ , ten backward, the familiar wkhaone.". .. paper-thiacknowledged that the world 7 panels held together title and green lettering symbol-- create k, it's phenomenal." has become more splintered. '. ize not just Dartmouth, whose And contempt: Viewers who move past any becomes Unfamiliar, leaving by a film of Elmer's glue and tied together with twine. It and nickname is "the Big Green," since the project began. inkial disgust will be rewarded, viewers to puzzle over the let- Absolutely lacking in aes. The installations are on dis- ters (Finland becomes "dnalnif," thetics. What ... pretentious a second work, united nations; but money. Gu's unconven- Kennedy said. ' "It's the transformative un- Lebanon "nonabeT) and Smile tional medium, and his message junk. The artist and the comunited colors," displayed in tO Sept. 9. Another Gu i at the decoding. another part of the library are - -- 'that education and capitalism missioner ought to be ashamed. possibility of the hair that ' The piece's playful tone is have drawn So many flaws," one viewer ... (Gu's) exploring," he Said. "It's are inseparable the latest installations in Gu's Retranslating and Rewriting mixed responses since the un- transformed into a translucent catching worldwide "united nations": wrote in a comment book. Tang Dynasty Poetry," a col' Zak Moore, a columnist for , screen, which defies it s mateIloveit.saidkesayaNoda, lection of prints of translated project, begun in 1993 and all .. veiling in June. Chinese poetry and their carved a college employee. "The only rial." made from human hair. Theres confusion: Dartmouths student newspa-- . I know it probably has same per, worried that the someGu's second installation is a Dartmouth's Hood Museum cases, is at the Hood Museum ' pattern is the pattern of color. braid of (roughly .7 12 miles of of Art until Sept. 9. what gross and unattractive" commissioned Gu to create other meaning," said 20year- There's no pattern to the way .- . . Hair art . a . ; . . - . . . an . . . . . . -- n . . . . . . - : . . . ... . - . r Making Your Money Buy Morel SAVVY SHOPPER DEALS Frit good through 125 Frko good throvgh 825 1 (RITE ' 7 KRAFT KJTCHEfSS.' 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