{"id":33731,"date":"2019-05-09T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=33731"},"modified":"2019-05-08T08:04:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:04:26","slug":"thomas-c-chung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/09\/thomas-c-chung\/","title":{"rendered":"thomas c. chung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=33740\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33740\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33740\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/thomascchung.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"4205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the dreamy work of Chinese-Australian artist (based in Melbourne and Sydney)<a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-c-chung.com\"> Thomas C. Chung<\/a>. I wrote about him years ago when his portfolio was full of fiber&#8230; but now it&#8217;s filled with neon and rainbow-filled skies printed on mirrors!\u00a0Here is part of his artist statement about this 2018 show at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galeriepompom.com\">Galerie pompom<\/a> in Sydney:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;In a world that is in search of Utopia \u2013 reaching for such great heights \u2013 there is an uncertainty to this pursuit. In being vulnerable we become susceptible, a process which reveals its own limits. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;\u2026It Was Like Seeing A Fallen Rainbow&#8221;, is an exhibition connecting the loss of innocence with our reflected self. Continuing my earliest years of research into exploring the childlike psyche, this lifelong narrative is a conceptual fusion mediating my interests in psychology, philosophy and contemporary aesthetics. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Utilising aerial photography, &#8220;From Up Above\u2026So It Is&#8221; is a vast series of cloudscapes printed upon mirrors. The compositions are in a state of free fall, drifting in the sky, passing through a prism of colour and peering into the sea. Occupying a space between disturbance and the aftermath, a rainbow is a temporary rift formed by the dispersion of light. A moment between moments. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sitting on a bed of chiselled stone is a text-based installation created in neon. The twisted sentence spelling out the title of the show. Contrasting elements of dense, dark stone the fluorescence of electrified glass is a play on weight and tone, content and tension<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the dreamy work of Chinese-Australian artist (based in Melbourne and Sydney) Thomas C. Chung. I wrote about him years ago when his portfolio was full of fiber&#8230; but now it&#8217;s filled with neon and rainbow-filled skies printed on mirrors!\u00a0Here is part of his artist statement about this 2018 show at Galerie pompom in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,43,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33741,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33731\/revisions\/33741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}