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21st September, 2025 Topic: Pieter Schoolwerth Student : Chan Yik Fei Student ID: 60169927 Pieter Schoolwerth is born in 1970, when the internet started to really take off. He saw the rise of the Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, he noticed now people started to adapt and interact with this new space and technology. His works has a lot to do with the space between objects and humans compared with the virtual world. (Source:Artist talk with Pieter Schoolwerth at Kunstverein Hannover ,by Petzel Gallery, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNZFrWjbmDw 8:07) (Source: Petzel. (March 31-May 7 2022) Pieter Schoolwerth Rigged. The Body of Work (Rigged #14)  https://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/pieter-schoolwerth3 ) In The Body of Work, Pieter uses oil, acrylic and inkjet to create a portrait depicting a few people socialising outdoors. The twist here is that the picture is contorted and warped, with a humanoid figure seemingly conflating itself and climbing into the 2D space, while other p...

Topic: Danh Vo Student name: Chan Yik Fei Student number: 60169927 Danh Vo is an artist who was born in Vietnam, but escaped South Vietnam when he was four and became a resident in Denmark. Later, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He now works in Berlin and Mexico City. His works often explore how different objects interact with each other, the space and environment surrounding the piece, while exploring the ideas of identity and history. For this week’s work, I’ll focus on Lot 20. Two Kennedy administration Cabinet Room Chairs (2013).  Note: by David Heald, Guggenheimm New York (  https://www.guggenheim.org/teaching-materials/teaching-modern-and-contemporary-asian-art/danh-vo-2  ) Danh Vo acquired these two chairs and torn them apart into this art piece. The artwork consists of the leather once belonging on the chair, now hung up as an installation.  I personally find the history of the material rather interesting. As the Kennedy administration ...