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The
9th September 1998 saw the official opening of the Art Factory.
Beezy's
renowned character 'Lee Ping Zing' performed alongside a
powerful body of work in the form of paintings, sculpture and
graphic works. Lee Ping Zing executed a self portrait on the
wall of the Gallery, a 1930's building at No 4 Buiten Street,
Cape Town, South Africa, which has been transformed into an art
piece itself. It is here where it is all happening.
In
1995 at a Chinese supermarket in New York Beezy bought a bunch
of ceremonial Chinese bank notes along with other goods. A few
months later back in South Africa he started painting about
seventy of the bank notes, all the time retaining the face in
the center. These pictures were gathered chronologically and
illustrated in a limited edition children's book. Lee Ping Zing
was born, like Mickey Mouse or Charlie Chaplin, with his own
character going on a fantasy adventure of life and beyond. The
project evolved over a three-year period into multi mediums and
a selection of the finest of the three hundred pieces are being
exhibited. |
