{"id":29173,"date":"2023-02-22T10:43:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T01:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/?post_type=insights&p=29173"},"modified":"2023-02-22T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T03:10:10","slug":"american-gothic","status":"publish","type":"insights","link":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/insights\/29173","title":{"rendered":"American Gothic"},"content":{"rendered":"

2023.2.18 – 3. 18
\nJingze Du<\/p>\n

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American Gothic, Installation View<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Steve Turner is pleased to present American Gothic<\/em>, a solo exhibition featuring new works by Dublin-based Jingze Du that relate to American popular culture and celebrity as perceived by Du, someone who spent the \ufb01rst thirteen years of his life in Yantai, China and most of the next fourteen in Dublin, Ireland. Du\u2019s vantage point is an interesting one, for though he has yet to visit the United States, he has intensely admired its culture from afar and has made it a subject in his work for the last \ufb01ve years.<\/p>\n

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Jingze Du, American Gothic, 2023, Oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the exhibition\u2019s core are three pairs of delicately rendered paintings in thinned down oil in shades of black, gray and white. There are two larger than life-size portraits of visual artists, one of Jeff Koons and the other of Sterling Ruby; one of basketball legend LeBron James in action and another of two courtside NBA fans; and \ufb01nally there is Du\u2019s pared down version of Grant Wood\u2019s American Gothic and one of a great white shark, tellingly titled Jaws.<\/p>\n

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American Gothic, Installation View<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The pairs have their own interesting frisson and all of the individual works have some interesting dialogue with the others. Koons and Ruby are the yin and yang of American contemporary artists, one shiny and bright, the other dark and foreboding; LeBron is the embodiment of the American Dream; The shark is the face of American capitalism; Grant Wood\u2019s painting is the ultimate American painting; and the courtside fans are the audience to it all.<\/p>\n

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Jingze Du, Jaws, 2023, Oil on canvas, 120 x 150 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There also are \ufb01ve acrylic spray-painted paintings, two of the Empire State Building, two of Andy Warhol and one of a U.S. one hundred dollar bill. They add another layer of historical context and exemplify the other half of Du\u2019s painting practice, one that is gestural, loose and occasionally includes color.<\/p>\n

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America Gothic, Installation View<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jingze Du (born 1995, Yantai, China) moved to Dublin when he was thirteen years old. He later earned his BA at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin (2017) and his MA from the Royal College of Art, London (2019). He has had solo exhibitions at Sifang Museum, Shanghai (2022); Steve Turner, Los Angeles (May & October, 2020 & 2021) and Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2021). This is his fourth solo exhibition at Steve Turner.<\/p>\n

Steve Turner
\n6830 Santa Monica Blvd Los Angeles CA 90038
\n(323) 460-3860<\/p>\n

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