{"id":392,"date":"2015-06-03T00:53:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T15:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-concrete.org\/?p=392"},"modified":"2020-02-11T12:49:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T03:49:37","slug":"the-cloud-of-unknowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-concrete.org\/en\/work\/cinema\/the-cloud-of-unknowing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cloud of Unknowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ho Tzu Nyen\u2019s multichannel video installation The Cloud of Unknowing (2011) explores the expansive subject of the representation of the elusive and amorphous cloud. Inspired by philosopher Hubert Damisch\u2019s thesis on the form\u2019s aesthetics and symbolism, A Theory of \/Cloud\/: Toward a History of Painting, first published in French in 1972, Ho\u2019s work incorporates a set of eight compartmentalized vignettes, each centered on a character that stands for the cloud\u2019s representation in historically significant Western European artworks by artists including Caravaggio, Francisco de Zurbar\u00e1n, Antonio da Correggio, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Andrea Mantegna, and Ren\u00e9 Magritte, as well as the Eastern landscapes of Mi Fu and Wen Zhengming. This incorporation and blending of cultural, historical, and philosophical references, both Eastern and Western, is prevalent in Ho\u2019s practice, which references painting (EARTH, 2009), pop music (The Bohemian Rhapsody Project, 2006), literature (The King Lear Project, 2008) and philosophy (Zarathustra: A Film for Everyone and No One, 2009).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ho Tzu Nyen\u2019s multichannel video installation The Cloud of Unknowing (2011) explores the expansive subject of the representation of the elusive and amorphous cloud. Inspired by philosopher Hubert Damisch\u2019s thesis on the form\u2019s aesthetics and symbolism, A Theory of \/Cloud\/: Toward a History of Painting, first published in French in 1972, Ho\u2019s work incorporates a set of eight compartmentalized vignettes, each centered on a character that stands for the cloud\u2019s representation in historically significant Western European artworks by artists including Caravaggio, Francisco de Zurbar\u00e1n, Antonio da Correggio, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Andrea Mantegna, and Ren\u00e9 Magritte, as well as the Eastern landscapes of Mi Fu and Wen Zhengming. This incorporation and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,27],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-concrete.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-concrete.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-concrete.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-concrete.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-concrete.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-concrete.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2484,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-concrete.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/2484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-concrete.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-concrete.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-concrete.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}