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2023
CATALYST PROJECT
NEO N’ OLD_NATIONAL
YUNG-CHIH LEE
2023/03/08 - 03/29
Neo n’ Old is a series of works begun in 2021 by artist Yung-Chih Lee. Using both video projection and transparent glass stickers as medium, these works replicate and recreate the patterns and textures of iconic neon advertising boards, with references gathered from a variety of historical sources. By copying these once ubiquitous images, the artist brings into the present moment an atmosphere of an old industrial era that has now faded into the past. At the same time, this act reproduces the craze for neon signage that was so popular in Asia during the 1980s.
ARTIST
YUNG-CHIH LEE
Yung-Chih Lee was born in 1979. He holds a master’s degree in New Media Art from the Taipei National University of the Arts, and now works as a freelance film editor and artist. His creations often use the displacement and misappropriation of art forms and life design to engage in aesthetic and cultural criticism. Lee has won such awards as the Kaohsiung Awards Observers Special Award and New Taipei City Award Merit Award. His works have been exhibited in venues spanning Taiwan and Singapore. He was invited to participate in the Biennale Jogja 2019 and in the 2020 Taipei Fine Art Museum exhibition The Secret South: from Cold War Perspective to Global South in Museum Collection.
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