MADSAKI – BADA BING, BADA BOOM
2017-11-13New works will be featured in the exhibition, including works based on scenes from classic American films popular among Koreans such as Roman Holiday, Léon: The Professional, Rebel Without a Cause, Gone With the Wind, Indiana Jones and Sound of Music. In addition, the Self-portrait and Flower Series by Andy Warhol, as well as new works from MADSAKI’s Character Series, an assemble of American and Japanese characters, will also be on view. MADSAKI, a master of spray paint, uses the paint splashing nozzle like a brush, a technique which ultimately yields wild, yet delicate works.
Spray paint is a powerful tool that injects and peppers paint, allowing Graffiti artists to quickly cover huge walls or storefront shutters and billboards, or sides of subway trains with large letters a few meters wide. The paint that scatters through the air under pressure does not require any physical contact with its user, irregardless of whether the surface flat or uneven. Ordinarily, it would be considered a violent act to use spray paint on a canvas which is more often appropriate for delicate paintings displayed indoors. Yet the enticing attraction of the motifs in MADSAKI’s works seem familiar and are strongly tied to the details that reside within those spattered paint particles.
Opposite – Riders On The Storm, 2017.
Exhibition runs through to January 13th, 2018
Perrotin
1F 5 Palpan-Gil, Jongno-Gu
Seoul
South Korea
