When an era becomes a container for standards, most consumer goods in an overly purified consumer life that has erased characteristics lose their original look and tend to be more adapted to the environment. How to live in harmony with the simple pleasures of life in an environment of limited choice is the main character of the paintings in this exhibition by Ko Ingup.
The interplay between the original appearance of the object and the psychological state of transformation, which has a tendency to transcend the function of the subject and has no use value, as in the painting depicting the 'mood of the weekend', where the happy mood of a weekend is given such a state by changing the form of the object, such as the knife carving on the surface of the watermelon, intertwining the standardised The close-up composition of the advertisement creates a dramatic stage of consumer goods out of the mass of consumer goods, reducing the use value of the objects in the painting to a purely soulful and decorative fantasy. In the same way that the function of the belt buckle is diminished in the painting 'The Absent Object', the decorative distortion of the goose's head entwines to render the buckle unusable, disguising the confusion at a key functional point in the consumer product, a pure fantasy that also hopes to unveil a secondary narrative of the world of commodities.
The impact of cultural migration, like that of monsoons and currents, is also often present in Gao Yingpu's images, and the changes in the import and export packaging of cigarette boxes in the painting 'Monsoons and Currents Import and Export (left; Changbai Mountains right: Camel)' are represented through a restructuring of the narrative, reflecting the changes made by cultural migration and adaptation, with a more tangible sense of local and imported cigarettes. The change in the packaging of imported and exported cigarettes is presented through a restructuring of the narrative, reflecting the changes made by cultural migration and adaptation.
2023.01.07 - 2023.02.07