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Epic Techno-Sublime
Gordon Cheung’s paintings capture the hallucinations between the virtual and actual realities of a globalised world oscillating between Utopia and Dystopia. Spray paint, oil, acrylic, pastels, Financial Times stock listings and ink collide in his works to form epic techno-sublime vistas. The painting’s fragmentary multi-layered nature seeks to provide deconstructive networks to reveal fractures in the hallucinatory surfaces of modern life so that we might slip beyond to the emergent patterns and underbelly of what shapes our world. The paintings reflect the techno-sublime where information overwhelms the individual causing a flickering perception of realities blurring between the virtual and actual to encourage a questioning of habitual perceptions. |
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Gordon Cheung (b. 1975 London) lives and works in London
Cheung graduated from Central Saint Martins, BA 1998 and the Royal College of Art, MA 2001. He was selected to take part in the largest and most ambitious survey of recent developments in art from the UK: The British Art Show 6, BALTIC Museum, Gateshead (2006). His recent exhibitions include Gordon Cheung – Recent Paintings, Djanogly Gallery, UK (2007), Arrivals and Departures, URBIS Museum, UK (2007), John Moores Painting 24, Liverpool Bienalle (2006), ACG Publications, Alan Cristea Gallery, London (2005), His works have recently been acquired for the ASU Art Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, Whitworth Museum and he has been commissioned for a Laing Art Solo Award for July 2007. |
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