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Gordon Cheung, Promised Land, 2009
Gordon Cheung, Promised Land, 2009
Gordon Cheung, Promised Land, 2009
Gordon Cheung, Promised Land, 2009
Gordon Cheung, Promised Land, 2009
Gordon Cheung, Promised Land, 2009

Promised Land, 2009

Financial newspaper, ink, acrylic gel, spray on sail cloth
229 x 489 x 3.5 cm
90 1/2 x 192 1/2 x 1 1/2 in
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ), currently selected., currently selected., currently selected. Gordon Cheung, Wilderness of Mirrors, 2008
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Gordon Cheung, Wilderness of Mirrors, 2008
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Promised Land exemplifies the central importance of science fiction to Cheung’s work. At the centre of the image stands the iconographic figure of pre-dawn man, borrowed from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001:...
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Promised Land exemplifies the central importance of science fiction to Cheung’s work. At the centre of the image stands the iconographic figure of pre-dawn man, borrowed from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Cheung explains: “Pre-dawn man has understood the power of violence and by exerting it; it can control the ‘pool of life’ and secure survival for his tribe.” The artist’s reference to this prehistoric domination as well as filmography occurs within a Technicolor landscape, suggesting that the evolution of pre-dawn to space age mankind is intertwined with violence.
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Exhibitions

Transfer of Power, C-Project, Los Angeles, USA (07/23/2021 to 08/14/2021)

Pavilion of Republic of Azerbaijan, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (05/09/2015 to 11/22/2015)

The Promised Land, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA (03/19/2009 to 04/18/2009)


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