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2/5/2003

John Young

Pruss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin

In his artworks John Young combines painting on canvas with largesized digital prints of pre-founded pictures. He multiplies and fragments images and information, he mates abstraction with photorealism, conflates Western and East-Asian submittals to seperate them again. As a Chinese, born and grown up in Hong Kong, and an Australian based artist today, he reflects 'between' worlds of migrants and denies the assimilation which is postulated in Autralia as well as in Europe. Based on this context the new works of the painter can be seen as a comment on the Western curatorial-scene. Those are requiring assimilation likewise an 'Asian- Chinese authenticity'.

John Youngs work declines to be one thing, in one way, of one artist. He states: 'since Benjamin one function of the act of painting is to resuscitate a sense of affection for the image - to literally affect it. Painting is the body’s union with the image, and to paint a photographic image - that is an image which is, so to speak, frozen dead out of the stream of time, is, to me, a sort of reincarnation. Regarding ‘thinness’ I have never gotten to a point in the belief of authorship that the mark is the mark of the author. Expressionism has never been my cup of tea - painting an image for me has always been the body’s relation to the surface, not an author’s relation.'

John Young was born 1956 in Hong Kong and emigrated 1967 to Australia. After his studies of Philosophy he mayored in painting and sculpture at the Sydney College of the Arts. He lives and works in Sydney and Hong Kong.

The exhibition THREE PROPOSITIONS is a coproduction with ANNA SCHWARTZ GALLERY, Melbourne. The show is sponsored by the AUSTRALIA COUNCIL.
A catalogue is published.
PRÃœSS & OCHS GALLERY BERLIN
former Asian Fine Arts Berlin
Sophienstraße 18 D–10178 Berlin-Mitte

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