“WAVELENGTH: Neo Golden Age” will be held at the Modern Art Museum (MAM) from November 8th, 2020 to March 14, 2021. The exhibition will be jointly presented by British Neo-Pop artist Philip Colbert and Canadian street artist Trevor Andrew in the form of a “duo solo exhibition”. “Neo Golden Age” is the latest exhibition curated by WAVELENGTH, who also curated one of the top 10 Shanghai art exhibitions in 2018 “WAVELENGTH: Reset”.
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Following their China debut in 2018, the two artists will bring their largest ever solo exhibitions to Shanghai again. This time they will use some unprecedented creative methods and media to open a dialogue of art at MAM, with the theme of “Lobster Land” and “The Real Big Deal” respectively.
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In the 1980s, “the Father of Pop Art” Andy Warhol and street art icon Jean Michel Basquiat started an indestructible friendship in spite of their great difference in generation, which led to the “creative marriage” of Pop art and street art. The “Golden Age” in which this legendary friendship unfolded is a microcosm of the anti-traditional art movement that explored the relationship between pop culture, social feelings and art itself.
It also created a “spiritual highland” for artists of later generations. Philip Colbert and Trevor Andrew have inherited their anti-traditional artistic spirit, and present new attitudes and definitions of contemporary Pop and street art through diverse, multi-disciplinary, and unconventional art practices, with the intention of opening up the “Neo Golden Age” of Pop art and street art.
Philip Colbert: Lobster Land
Described as the “Godson of Andy Warhol”, Philip Colbert is a representative of contemporary Neo-Pop art. Deeply entwined with pop theory, Colbert works across the mediums of painting, sculpture, clothing, furniture & design. For Philip Colbert, “Lobster” is not only a classic symbol in art history, but also his “alter ego” and “the animated protagonist of surrealism” in his artistic practice. Colbert integrates the rich art history influences into the fragments of contemporary daily life, and transforms them into scenes of his surrealism Neo-Pop world, “Lobster Land”, a large-scale visual art experience and his largest ever solo exhibition.
According to Colbert, the rich resources of art history have created a language, painting is a communication tool, and only the unconscious, surreal world can get rid of all reality constraints. Life itself is the ultimate essence of art. In this utopian lobster world, the audience will become Lobster Land residents, and the boundary between reality and virtuality will be dissolved with immersive sensual experience.
Trevor Andrew: The Real Big Deal
Trevor Andrew is an iconic figure of contemporary graffiti art, but this identity definitely cannot fully represent his legendary career. In addition to that, Andrew is also an Olympic athlete, a musician, the lead singer of a band, a cartoonist, the owner of a street fashion brand, and “Gucci Ghost”, a collaborated artist of Gucci. His long-term multi-disciplinary art practice has given Andrew a unique artistic perspective and a distinctive creative language. Traditional art media never limit the creativity of Trevor Andrew, as he turns daily items and even garbage into his creative subjects.
The retrospective show “The Real Big Deal” is Trevor Andrew’s very first large-scale solo exhibition, which not only presents huge daily object installations with exaggerated sizes, but also pays tribute to the classic scenes of his artist career. “I have been creating all my life. This kind of creation is exaggerated and irrational, but it is also the most real motivation for all my art.” Says Trevor Andrew. In this exhibition, the energy taken from daily life could also become a “Real Big Deal” and inspire the audience to explore the value behind all things in the universe.
The “Neo Golden Age” exhibition uses an unprecedented way of art presentation to impact contemporary pop culture and the consumerism world, depicts realistic scenes with exaggerated and unconventional installations, and opens a “Neo Golden Age” of contemporary Pop and street art with immersive experience.
WAVELENGTH: Neo Golden Age
Philip Colbert: Lobster Land
Trevor Andrew: The Real Big Deal
Date: 8 November 2020 – 14 March 2021
Time: 10.00 – 18.00 Closed on Monday
Venue: Modern Art Museum Shanghai (4777 Binjiang Avenue, Pudong New Area, Shanghai)
VIP Preview / Opening Party: 7 November 2020 10.00 – 22.00
WAVELENGTH is a groundbreaking multi-disciplinary art platform, which is dedicated to facilitating multi-faceted cooperation in creative ideas and branding an international exhibition brand. Unique thoughts and art forms converge here, colliding, merging and resonating with each other to break the boundaries of existing regulations and to present diversified cultural interaction activities. WAVELENGTH implies the resonance state of thinking and design language. The WAVELENGTH team will continue to provide a platform for outstanding creators, and break the boundaries between different fields and cultural backgrounds through multi-discipline cooperation.
The Modern Art Museum (MAM) in Shanghai, China, is an institution focused on diversity, equality, nurturing creativity and education, by pursuing its core value “Art’s Happening”. An institution with a global and multidisciplinary approach, MAM Shanghai aims at contributing to the education, knowledge and enjoyment of art through an immersive and engaging experience. Its vast industrial architecture offers a versatile and dynamic space to connect the shared cultures of the East and West. Located along the ‘cultural corridor’ of museums and galleries that runs along the riverside in the Pudong New Area, MAM utilises innovative methods to facilitate public participation and engagement with art.
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