
Installation view, The Propeller Group, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, December 1, 2018 - March 9, 2019
Installation view, The Propeller Group, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, December 1, 2018 - March 9, 2019
Installation view, The Propeller Group, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, December 1, 2018 - March 9, 2019
Installation view, The Propeller Group, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, December 1, 2018 - March 9, 2019
Installation view, The Propeller Group, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, December 1, 2018 - March 9, 2019
THE PROPELLER GROUP
Sai Gon Was A Place
2019
brass
40 - 50 cm in diameter
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs (#1/3)
JCG11139
THE PROPELLER GROUP
AK47 vs. M16
2015
Installation view, Grand Arts, Kansas City
THE PROPELLER GROUP
AK47 vs. M16
2015
Installation view, Grand Arts, Kansas City
THE PROPELLER GROUP
Ak47 vs. M16
2015
Fragments of AK-47 and M16 bullets, ballistics gel, custom vitrine, and digital video
7 1/8 x 16 7/8 x 7 1/4 in.
18.1 x 42.9 x 18.4 cm
THE PROPELLER GROUP
AK47 vs. M16 (detail)
2015
Fragments of AK-47 and M16 bullets, ballistics gel, custom vitrine, and digital video
7 1/8 x 16 7/8 x 7 1/4 in.
18.1 x 42.9 x 18.4 cm
THE PROPELLER GROUP
Ak47 vs. M16 (film still)
2015
Fragments of AK-47 and M16 bullets, ballistics gel, custom vitrine, and digital video
7 1/8 x 16 7/8 x 7 1/4 in.
18.1 x 42.9 x 18.4 cm
THE PROPELLER GROUP
The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music
2014
Single Channel Film, 3840 x 2160, 25fps, Color, 5.1
Surround Sound Film still
Installation view: James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
THE PROPELLER GROUP
The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music
2014
Single Channel Film, 3840 x 2160, 25fps, Color, 5.1
Surround Sound Film still
Installation view: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
THE PROPELLER GROUP
The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music
2014
Single Channel Film, 3840 x 2160, 25fps, Color, 5.1
Surround Sound Film still
THE PROPELLER GROUP
The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music
2014
Single Channel Film, 3840 x 2160, 25fps, Color, 5.1
Surround Sound Film still
THE PROPELLER GROUP
The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music
2014
Single Channel Film, 3840 x 2160, 25fps, Color, 5.1
Surround Sound Film still
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Untitled [Ox Head; The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music]
2014
Water Buffalo Skull, gold leafing, and brass rings
49 x 33 ½ x 29 ½ in.
124.5 x 85.1 x 74.9
JCG7821
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Untitled [Ox Head; The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music], 2014
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Untitled [Snake; The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music]
2014
Carved jackfruit wood with 24k gold fangs, brass support
25 3/4 x 85 7/8 x 15 1/2 in.
65.4 x 218.1 x 39.4 cm
Installation view: The Propeller Group, Luckman Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles, CA
JCG7822
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Untitled [Snake: The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music], 2014
Detail
THE PROPELLER GROUP
Antique Space Debris
2014
Jackfruit wood
70 13/16 x 70 13/16 x 15 11/16 in.
180.0 x 180.0 x 40.0 cm
JCG8278
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Antique Space Debris, 2014
Detail
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Antique Dragon Spacecraft
2016
Jackfruit wood and antique jackfruit wood column from "princess" house
90 x 125 x 130 cm
228.6 x 317.5 x 330.2 cm
JCG8302
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Antique Earth Satellite
2016
Trắcwood and jackfruit wood
81 1/2 x 19 11/16 x 15 3/4 in.
207 x 50 x 40 cm
JCG8301
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Space Antique Debris
2016
Trắcwood, resin, 6th century glass bead, LED light
10 5/8 x 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.
27 x 20 x 20 cm
JCG8303
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Space Antique Debris (top view)
2016
Trắcwood, resin, 6th century glass bead, LED light
10 5/8 x 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.
27 x 20 x 20 cm
JCG8303
THE PROPELLER GROUP
The Axe Fight
2013 - 2018
Three axes, book encasement, PowerPoint presentation
and performance
Dimensions variable
JCG10908
THE PROPELLER GROUP
The Axe Fight, 2013 - 2018
Detail
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Monumental Bling: Lenin East Berlin on Lenin Volgograd [1:25 scale]
2013
Fiberglass and automotive paint with gold plated pendant and necklace, wood pedestal
68 x 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.
172.7 x 26.7 x 26.7 cm
1/5 (#1/5)
JCG8702.1
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Lenin Piece
2013
3D printed composite pendant plated in 24k gold with 18k gold chain
9 3/8 x 5 3/4 x 15 1/4 in.
23.8 x 14.6 x 38.7 cm
1/5 (#1/5)
JCG8701.1
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Lenin as...
2013
Installation view: The Propeller Group, Luckman Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles, CA
THE PROPELLER GROUP
Lenin as...
2013
Installation view: The Propeller Group, Luckman Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles, CA
THE PROPELLER GROUP
Lenin as...
2013
Installation view: The Propeller Group, Luckman Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles, CA
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Lenin as Jack Dawson in Titanic
2013
Oil and embroidery on canvas
66 3/4 x 37 1/2 in.
169.6 x 95.3 cm
JCG8698
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Lenin as Cobb in Inception
2013
Oil and embroidery on canvas
47 x 39 3/4 in.
119.4 x 101.0 cm
JCG8699
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The Guerrillas of Cu Chi
2012
2-channel synchronized video installation
20:04 min.
2048 x 1152. 25p. Color. Stereo.
720 x 576. 25p. BW. Mono.
THE PROPELLER GROUP
Television Commercial For Communism
2011
Installation view: New Museum, New York, NY
THE PROPELLER GROUP
Television Commercial For Communism
2011
Installation view: Singapore Art Museum
THE PROPELLER GROUP
Television Commercial For Communism
2011
Installation view: MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
THE PROPELLER GROUP
Television Commercial For Communism
2011
Installation view: MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
THE PROPELLER GROUP
Television Commercial For Communism
2011
5-channel video installation
Synchronized. 60 min. 1920 x 1080. 25p. Color. 5.1 surround sound.
Television commercial animatic: 60 sec.
2014 x 1152. 25p. Color. Stereo.
THE PROPELLER GROUP
Television Commercial For Communism
2011
5-channel video installation
Synchronized. 60 min. 1920 x 1080. 25p. Color. 5.1 surround sound.
Television commercial animatic: 60 sec.
2014 x 1152. 25p. Color. Stereo.
THE PROPELLER GROUP, The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music, 2014
The Propeller Group is an artist collective based in Ho Chi Minh City. Founded in 2006, The Propeller Group's multimedia works use the languages of advertising and politics to initiate conversations about power, propaganda and public perception.
TPG became well-known for their 2011 advertising parody Television Commercial For Communism, included in the New Museum’s Ungovernables 2012 Triennial exhibition. The work considers the contradictions and tensions between two disparate eco-political systems. For the work, TPG hired a global advertising firm to create an advertising campaign to market Communist ideology through capitalist means.
The group’s 2014 film The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music, created for Prospect. 3 New Orleans Biennial, is a poetic voyage through the funeral traditions of South Vietnam and engages the striking similarity between these rituals and those from around the rest of the Global south, especially New Orleans. The film combines documentary footage of actual funeral processions along with vivid re-enactments; the film is a poetic rumination on death and the ways in which the living honor the dead.
“In many of our projects, we try to create disorder, hoping that disorder in such particular instances can become another sense of order to an audience that may be all too afraid of change or unable to accept other possible ways of engaging with current social structures. We like to play. We align ourselves with different cultural producers. We like to let ourselves get ingested into the bellies of big social beasts such as television, advertising, or the various manifestations of pop-culture.” –The Propeller Group
The Propeller Group's first survey exhibition opened at the MCA Chicago in 2016, and travelled to the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX, the Phoneix Art Museum, AZ, and the San Jose Musuem of Art, CA. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue. TPG's work has been featured in the 56th Venice Biennale, Italy (2015) and has been the subject of further solo exhibitions at the Luckman Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles, CA (2019); Minneapolis Institute of Art, MI (2017); Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2015); and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (2015). Past group exhibitions and international biennials for TPG include: Islands, Constellations, and Galapagos, Yokohama Trienniale, Japan (2017); After Darkness: Southeast Asian Art in the Wake of History, Asia Society, New York, NY (2017); Prospect.3: Notes for Now, New Orleans, LA (2014); Residual: Disrupted Choreographies, Carre d’Art, France (2014); No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY (2013); 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia; The Unseen, Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, China; Six Lines Of Flight, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Made In LA, Los Angeles Biennial, Hammer Museum, CA; The Ungovernables, New Museum, NY (2012); Project 35, Independent Curators International, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY; (2011); Projects 93, Museum of Modern Art, NY; 8th Shanghai Biennale, in collaboration with Superflex, China (2010); What’s the Big Idea?, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, CA (2009); The Farmers & the Helicopters, Freer & Sackler, Smithsonian, Washington DC, (2008); and the Lyon Biennial, The History of a Decade That Has Not Yet Been Named, France (2007).
TPG’s work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; New Orleans Museum of Art, LA; Speed Museum, Louisville, KY; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia; Burger Collection, Hong Kong; and the Singapore Art Museum.
Oakland, California