Double Take – Gully / Alexis
Visual Arts
Description
Description
Double Take celebrates the works of French artists Paul Alexis and GULLY. In their re-contextualizations of classic images, both Gully and Alexis’s masterful appropriations evoke new meanings informed by conscious experience and challenge pre-conceived associations with the familiar. Where to take a “Double Take” means to have a comical reaction to a surprising sight, the title of the exhibition references the playful colloquialism of their visual language inspired by the Appropriation movement of the 70s and 80s. By removing works of art from the traditionally linear continuum of art history and placing them within new contexts, Gully and Alexis provoke the contemporary viewer while meditating on the act of perception itself.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2015" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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