Li Shiu Tong and Magnus Hirschfeld
CIRCUIT Centre d’art contemporain•Sep 06, 2024 — Oct 12, 2024
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In 1935, Li Shiu Tong was called to Nice where his lover Magnus Hirschfeld had just died of a stroke. A mask of Hirschfeld’s face was taken in the following hours, the death mask of which Li Shiu Tong would be the keeper until he died in Vancouver in 1993. Together with a few writings, photos, and objects, the mask was saved by Li Shiu Tong’s neighbor from the garbage and ultimately donated to the Magnus Hirschfeld Gesellschaft in Berlin. The death mask and a selection made from these materials by Kévin Blinderman are at the core of his solo exhibition “Li Shiu Tong and Magnus Hirschfeld” at CIRCUIT Centre d’art contemporain.
Kévin Blinderman paints the portrait of an extraordinary couple. Extraordinary not only because of Li Shiu Tong’s and Magnus Hirschfeld’s difference in age, origins, and status, but also because of the lack of representations we have today of gay male relationships which were lived in a rather public and self-determined way at the time. The...More
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Li Shiu Tong and Magnus Hirschfeld
CIRCUIT Centre d’art contemporain•Sep 06, 2024 — Oct 12, 2024
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In 1935, Li Shiu Tong was called to Nice where his lover Magnus Hirschfeld had just died of a stroke. A mask of Hirschfeld’s face was taken in the following hours, the death mask of which Li Shiu Tong would be the keeper until he died in Vancouver in 1993. Together with a few writings, photos, and objects, the mask was saved by Li Shiu Tong’s neighbor from the garbage and ultimately donated to the Magnus Hirschfeld Gesellschaft in Berlin. The death mask and a selection made from these materials by Kévin Blinderman are at the core of his solo exhibition “Li Shiu Tong and Magnus Hirschfeld” at CIRCUIT Centre d’art contemporain.
Kévin Blinderman paints the portrait of an extraordinary couple. Extraordinary not only because of Li Shiu Tong’s and Magnus Hirschfeld’s difference in age, origins, and status, but also because of the lack of representations we have today of gay male relationships which were lived in a rather public and self-determined way at the time. The...More
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