Gene Gallery is delighted to announce Shin Masaharu's first solo exhibition in China, "Distorted."
Shin Masaharu (b.1996) completed the accumulation of his creative materials by collecting standard textures and fabrics in daily life. The collection process of this material classifies and analyzes the daily environment and establishes a classification system with the help of its judgment habits and standards to cope with the arrival of various daily experiences.
Shin Masaharu's creative practice discussed forming a unified and effective category system (including material properties, relationships, and states in the classification) under the same value judgment system and classification standard. Driven by this logic, Shin Masaharu's painting creations show a high degree of consistency in the language of pictures. In a sense, the creations that belong to the same classification system can be regarded as "similar." These seemingly similar works reflect the subtle cognitive differences he produced when dealing with daily experience and are based on an ontology perspective that helps the artist re-examine "category and difference" as a result of creative objects.
As a young artist, Shin Masaharu highlights the nuances of the highly similar modern life landscape by collecting contemporary and East Asian fashions from the 1970s onwards. This observation method of classifying and reproducing the texture of life makes his creation not simply summarized in abstract art. However, it forms a form of expression that he calls "life painting" through the collection of everyday objects and textures. For example, the golden screen printing that appears in many works,
"They look almost identical, but the pigments create subtle differences in the process of screen printing and re-creation, and although the same screen panels are mostly used in the gold and black and white works, it is only necessary to Each element can be tweaked slightly and they look completely different,"
Shin Masaharu's interpretation of the works corresponds to the objective situation described in "Mencius" - "the unevenness of the husband and the object is also the emotion of the object." That is to say, even in the weak difference, all things in the world are enough to retain the "object." The objective situation is distinguished, which also confirms the general differences still maintained even if they are declining under the classification system constructed by the contemporary commodity society.