Russell Young: Superstar
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Russell Young: Superstar

Venue:
Modern Art Museum
4777 Binjiang Avenue Pudong Shanghai
Date:
10/27/2018 - 1/6/2019
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Russell Young: Superstar
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Russell Young: Superstar

10/27/2018 - 1/6/2019
Modern Art Museum
4777 Binjiang Avenue Pudong Shanghai
80 - 100
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British-American contemporary artist Russell Young (b. 1959) is best known for his compelling, larger-than-life silkscreen paintings of cultural icons. This exhibition presents the artist’s work spanning the last two decades, portraying Liz Taylor, James Dean and Bob Dylan alongside political giants John and Jackie Kennedy and showing how Young absorbs, processes and re-contextualizes the imagery of popular culture from the second half of the twentieth century onwards. 

This exhibition using ‘Superstar’ as a concept focuses on the exhibition experience, trying to define the essence of what truly makes a ‘superstar’ and interpret the process of creating a superstar. By presenting screen-printed reproductions of celebrity police mugshots, Young has stripped away their invincible pop status and replaced it with a more human identity, fracturing the conventional celebrity portrait and acknowledging the human beneath the icon, that popular culture often veils. 

Young also adds a sense of glamour and opulence through his use of diamond dust. The shimmering texture of this method provides literal glamour, yet the cheap, mass-produced material used to create the illusion of the ultimate symbol of wealth conforms perfectly to Young’s main exploration in this series: the painful reality of celebrity hidden behind the glamour.
 
 
 
 

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Date: 26th Oct - 6th Jan (Closed on Mondays)
 
Time: 10:00 - 18:00 (Last Admission 17:30)
 
Price: RMB 90
 
Children under 12 years old enter for free!
 
Location: 3F, Modern Art Museum, 4700 Bin Jiang Avenue, Pudong, Shanghai
 
 
 

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Russell Young: Superstar

Venue:
Modern Art Museum
4777 Binjiang Avenue Pudong Shanghai
Date:
10/27/2018 - 1/6/2019
This ticket is only available as an e-ticket
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