
Posing With Antlers in 100 Year Old (Haunted) Cabin
2004, Mixed Media on Board
79 x 61cm
Hernan Bas 的绘画作品探索纨绔主义风格及其亚文化群,并以此作为定义性吸引力的方法。Bas 的小幅绘画作品显得脆弱而神采飞扬;透过平易近人的作品,艺术家实现了史诗浪漫的人性化。受到历史题材绘画作品及同时代影像作品的影响, Hernan Bas 的作品的表现力及亲和力令人联想起经典电影的戏剧化叙述手法。在 Posing with Antlers 这幅作品中, Hernan Bas 描绘了一个看似无家可归的男孩,其做作夸张的表情似乎要引来一阵爆笑。Bas 将观赏者置于隐形摄影师的位置,并为其布置掠食性诱惑场景。
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Paradise Row presents the first solo show of Jean Charles de Castelbajac. Throughout his ground breaking career as a fashion designer, Castelbajac has employed a strategy of ‘cultural hijacking’- the appropriation, recycling and synthesis of images, signs, symbols and styles from both popular culture and high art to create still newer designs and visions. In keeping with his openness to the ever-shifting world of contemporary visual culture, Castelbajac has collaborated with artists including Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Bettina Rheims and Loulou Picasso.
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