Kesang Lamdark, Policeman, 2006, 80 x 120 cm / 31.5 x 47.24 inch, Courtesy: Avanthay Contemporary

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND.- Avanthay Contemporary AG presents Hobby Horse – Yeah, Yeah Dada Asia, a show curated by Elaine W. Ng, publisher of Art AsiaPacific. The exhibition explores the work of artists whose practice relies heavily on the use of appropriated material ­ beer cans, leather whips, stickers, trees, toy soldiers, movie titles and wallpaper ­ as a form of social critique. The origin of this practice is traced to the Dada movement that began at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich in 1916, where a small association of radical artists sought to disrupt meaning through a series of acts that included critiquing traditional notions of art to exploring language, meaning and the spectacle within art. Critical, raucous, anarchic, outrageous and metaphorical, Dada in its various guises railed against the superficiality and chaos of the world during World War I. Although its originators declared the movement dead by 1921, the influence of Dada continues and now extends beyond its European roots.  Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.org/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=21959