"Multiplying Difference: Abstract Painting 99185", painting, digital, pink

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Cody Choi
"Multiplying Difference: Abstract Painting 99185", painting, digital, pink
2018

About the Item

The works from the series "Multiplying Difference: Abstract Painting" and thus also „Multiplying Difference: Abstract Painting 99185" are driven by a kind of perverted, oedipal effect. Because in 1999, Cody Choi (*1961 in Seoul, where he lives and works) "stole" or “borrowed” data from digital animal drawings that his son (then of kindergarten age) had made on the computer. Almost 20 years later Choi used them – the digital animal drawings – for himself. He did so by, now in an authentic Oedipal manner, creating works on the basis of these drawings that simulated and assimilated the abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter, the godfather of abstract painting. For this simulation / assimilation Choi repeatedly subjected his own (respectively: his son’s) images (digital data) to manipulations with the computer, layer by layer, data volume by data volume. And by doing so he digitally created the images that he called „Abstract Painting“, analogous to Richter's unanimous series. The data-generated picture is then printed on a close-meshed net using a UV printing process. This net is stretched over a colored canvas and finally treated with acrylic paint. The result is the analog simulation of a screen. Choi has been an artist and cultural theorist since the 1980s and since he flew from Korea to arrive in Los Angeles as an immigrant. He studied at CalArts with Mike Kelley and he was good friends with John Baldessari. As an artist in the US he has been exploring the cultural identity and relationships of authority in contemporary society. His paintings, sculptures, and installation works have focused on the clashes between the diverse cultures of our contemporary age, as well as hybrid cultures, and the endless newly-created social phenomena as a result. Having started his career in the United States, Choi experienced chaos and frustration in the conflicting ideas of the rational and emotional, visual and conceptual art, commercial galleries and art works, and the American and Korean culture. Based on his frustration, Choi‘s work has focused on the subject of finding the alien Asian identity in the American society. While such confusion and anxiety was a burden of suffering for the artist, he began to recognize them as beautiful experiences, which allowed him to discover broader and deeper meanings and to nurture his thoughts. Choi represented Korea at the Venice Biennial 2017. His retrospective „Cody Choi. Culture Cuts“ – first shown at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (s) and the Musée d‘Art Moderne de Marseille (s) – was traveling major art museums and institutions throughout Europe, such as the University of Malaga, Spain and Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany, in Summer 2017. His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions such as „The Thinker“ at Deitch Projects in New York (s), „L‘ART AU CORPS: le corps exposé de Man Ray à nos jours“ at Musée d’Art Contemporain in Marseille (g), Busan Biennale (G), „A tribute to Mike Kelley“ at MOCA Los Angeles (g), Gwangju Biennale (g), Arko Art Center in Seoul (s), or Today Art Museum, Beijing (s).

Creator:
Cody Choi (1961, Korean)
Creation Year:
2018
Dimensions:
Height: 42.92 in (109 cm)Width: 68.55 in (174.1 cm)
Medium:
Mesh,Canvas,Ink,Acrylic
Movement & Style:
New Media
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Cologne, DE
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU134425710371