HANS-PETER FELDMANN
2021-03-22Encompassing works from across Feldmann’s nearly five-decades long career, this survey show includes sculpture, photography, installation, collage, the appropriated image and found object.
Feldmann’s work dissolves the borders between art and life, blurring distinctions between conventionally high and low culture to discover unexpected, humorous outcomes that often verge on the absurd, and which challenge his viewers’ aesthetic sensibilities. One consistent strand of his practice sees the artist appropriate and modify historic oil paintings, mined from auctions, second hand shops and markets. Disrupting long-held assertions of the artist’s role as a unique creator, Feldmann systematically reconstructs existing images and objects to reflect on representation, with such subtle, humorous interventions as the addition of a red nose to a portrait, or by painting over the subject’s face to create a trompe l’oeil cut out.
Opposite – Collages
Exhibition runs through to May 8th, 2021
Simon Lee Gallery
304, 3F The Pedder Building
12 Pedder Street, Central
Hong Kong
China
