Gordon Cheung

The communications and digital revolutions have collapsed notions of time and distance into the instant reconfiguring our perceptions of time and space into a state of flux. In our increasingly technologised era this for Gordon Cheung constitutes a new form of landscape in which data literally saturates and affects our lives. In the paintings the Financial Times stock listings are used as a metaphor for our globalised virtual space with the images tapping into an archetypal space. Sourcing ideas from mythology, iconic paintings and cinematic moments they are drawn together into one painting using image sources such as the Internet, magazines and photos. These are arranged on a computer into categories and used like a virtual palette to form photo-collages on photoshop. Enlarged using a grid system they are printed directly onto the stock listings of the Financial Times, glued to canvas and finished with ink, gloss, spray paint, pastels, oils and acrylics.



Gordon Cheung, Adam and Eve in Paradise (study), Stock listings, ink, acrylic gel and spray on canvas, 2007, 46 x 61 cm