Monoprints, hand-colored with ink, acrylic, and correction pen, on photocopied ink templates on paper.

Description

The Hong Kong dollars are related to Tan’s trip to Hong Kong in 1997, just a few months before the handover. They feature as the main personage Charlie Chaplin, another historical figure by whose talent Vũ Dân Tân was impressed. The choice seems to be random: the only link of the great comic to Hong Kong must be his last film “Countess from Hong Kong”. Nevertheless the artist doesn’t bother about the lack of historical coincidence.

Text extracted from Money for all Times essay, Kraevskaia, Natalia, in Money for all Times Catalog, 2010, p. 18.