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Gordon Cheung, Firewood, 2012
Gordon Cheung, Firewood, 2012

Firewood, 2012

Financial Times newspaper
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Since 1994 I have been using Financial Times as a material to create abstract ‘paintings’ that over the decades became a permanent part of my language. Developing the material into...
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Since 1994 I have been using Financial Times as a material to create abstract ‘paintings’ that over the decades became a permanent part of my language. Developing the material into sculptural forms was born from a desire to create stronger physical surfaces within the paintings. Eventually I came to appreciate them as their own forms in themselves and ‘firewood’ became a work in itself. They are layered newspapers glued together into branch-like forms, dried and sanded back to create driftwood like sticks and logs. I liked the idea of reversing the newspaper ‘back into wood’ as an inversion of Capitalism’s exploitation and harnessing nature into a resource to power civilisation. ‘Firewood’ takes the form of a campfire to suggest a space of survival; to stay warm, to cook and to gather around to tell stories. Meditatively implied is what would the nature of those stories be while sustaining oneself from the fires of Capitalism?


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The Solar Cry, Edel Assanti, London, UK (10/25/2012 to 01/05/2013)

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