Gordon Chueng

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 perception

"Think Matrix – the entire world as a computer construct – crossed with David Lynch’s surreal, dream spaces and the multiple realities in the novels of Philp K. Dick or J.G. Ballard, and you have the cultural background to ‘Machine Dreams’, where a monstrous blackened tree grows out of dead ground before a collapsing housing block, or ‘Mycloptic Shift’, a parodic reconfiguration of the romantic sublime: it has a sunset, rainbow, a share price mountain and tumbling cascades – where not nature but technology overwhelms us. His energetic, witty work is a classic product of an urban 1970s and 1980s childhood, caught between the fast street-cred and blaze of cheap materialism outside and the inner world of computer games in which his generation was the first to grow up."
‘Market Gains’, Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times magazine, Oct 16 2004

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