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| Artist's Name: | Gordon Cheung | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preferred medium: | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| birth year: | 1975 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality: | CN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| City: | London | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gordon Cheung auf MyArtSpace |
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Gordon Cheung - Profile |
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| Using Financial Times stock listings as a ground in his multi-media paintings Cheung depicts spaces inspired by 19th-century Romantic landscape paintings and Science Fiction. The listings are a metaphor for the dominant global economic ideology that maps the torrential streams of capital around the world. Cheung's paintings are 'virtual-reality environments' where 'faith' in the numbers of the stock exchange to deliver a 'Promised Land' dictates our lives. An overarching theme of his work is of the 'techno-sublime'; instead of an overwhelming experience of nature bringing us closer to God, the visual rhetoric of the sublime has exchanged to omnipotent information which overwhelms us with an artificial landscape. Cheung based the show around the romantic myth of the pioneering spirit and the ideas of manifest destiny. He is fascinated by the Sublime landscape genre where there is an undercurrent of propaganda of taking what God has 'given' you, never mind the blood soaking along the way - Beauty, Shock and Awe; War on Terror and political gain. Paintings of Rodeo riders become both Romantic icons of conquest and allegories for man's relationship with the environment. Bull riders, contemporary versions of the Minotaur, combine man and bull to serve as an analogy for the financial bull market and extreme corporate being. Cheung's technicolor palette scorches the sentimental sepia and flesh tones of the stock listings and creates luminosity within the work. His colors are toxic with a psychedelic and hallucinatory vision referencing the counter-cultural movement, a neon glare, a nuclear sunset, a drug induced vision or even a religious heavenly light. They are artificially luminous, a metaphor perhaps for a techno-utopian vision; when the Internet and mobile phones became readily available it fuelled the digital and communications revolution that gave rise to such terms as Information Superhighways, digital frontiers and global villages. All of which fell into dystopia after the millennium bug, the dotcom crash, collapse of Enron, destruction of the twin towers - and all before the current recession. Yet despite the post-apocalyptic mood the paintings offer glimmers of hope, their multi-layered spaces encourage perception beyond what is at first visible. (Jack Shainman Gallery, New York) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
important exhibitions from Gordon Cheung |
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artist's websiteexternal Link to the website of the artist or his gallery/institution: Gordon Cheung |
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Galleries representing
Adler Galerie, closed |
Collections representing
Arizona State University Art Museum |
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