Buddha Bap
Rice, wood, paint, video monitor, DVD player
95 x 41 x 35 in
240 x 105 x 90 cm
2012
Richard Humann • Buddha Bap • Rice, wood, paint, video monitor, DVD player • 95 x 41 x 35 in • 2012
Buddha Bap is an homage to Nam June Paik. It is impossible to come to Korea as a foreign artist and not feel the omnipresence of Nam June Paik. Mr. Humann has personally been lucky to have known him, in that the gallery that represented Richard for many years in New York City also represented Nam June’s wife, the artist Shigeko Kubota. Mr. Humann has been fortunate to have visited his home and studio many times, and to have exhibited his work alongside of Mr. Paik. Buddha Bap re-creates the 1974 work, TV Buddha in which the Buddha watches his videotaped image on a television monitor in an encounter between Oriental deity and Western media. In this new version, the Buddha is made entirely from cooked rice, or “bap” in Korean. He stares at a recorded image of the rice cooker that is in the rice making process. The rice Buddha, or “Buddha Bap” is watching his own creation.
Richard Humann • Buddha Bap • Rice, wood, paint, video monitor, DVD player • 95 x 41 x 35 in • 2012
Richard Humann • Buddha Bap • Rice, wood, paint, video monitor, DVD player • 95 x 41 x 35 in • 2012
Richard Humann • Buddha Bap • Rice, wood, paint, video monitor, DVD player • 95 x 41 x 35 in • 2012
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Buddha Bap was created during Richard Humann’s three-month-long artist residency at the Gyeonggi Creation Center on Daebudo, South Korea. It premiered at his solo exhibition, The Aesthetic of Lostness.
Photo credits: Rizwan Mirza / Richard Humann Studio