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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Gordon Cheung, The Promised Land, 2009

Gordon Cheung

The Promised Land, 2009
Financial Times stock listings, ink, acrylic gel and spray on sail cloth
229 x 489 cm (triptych)
90 1/8 x 192 1/2 in.
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'Promised Land' exemplifies the central importance of science fiction to Cheung’s work. At the centre of the image stands the iconographic figure of pre-dawn man, borrowed from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001:...
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'Promised Land' exemplifies the central importance of science fiction to Cheung’s work. At the centre of the image stands the iconographic figure of pre-dawn man, borrowed from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Cheung explains: “Pre-dawn man has understood the power of violence and by exerting it; it can control the ‘pool of life’ and secure survival for his tribe.” The artist’s reference to this prehistoric domination as well as filmography occurs within a Technicolor landscape, suggesting that the evolution of pre-dawn to space age mankind is intertwined with violence.
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