Russell Young Superstar
27.10.18 - 06.01.19
About.
Young’s most iconic works include Marilyn and Muhammad Ali, alongside more radical works, The Fight of the Paso del Mar and Helter Skelter. These works are curated within an immersive experience inviting the visitors to enter the artist world through interactive features including an 18 metre long cultural timeline of 1960s America, a sound tunnel, film projections of stars such as Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley and a video demonstrating the artist’s screen printing process.
Based in the all-embracing metropolis of Shanghai, Modern Art Museum (MAM) focuses on diversity, equality, exchange and education. The museum hosts classic art from the West and the East, as well as contemporary Asian art and pioneering work across creative disciplines.
The exhibition fully explores how Young re-contextualises popular culture from the second half of the twentieth century to today. His move to America in the early 1990s drove his fascination with the power of images to define popular culture. This has resulted in a body of work that boldly projects Young’s commanding and unapologetic vision of modern life and the people and events that have shaped it. The exhibition features a cast of characters that define the building blocks of Western counterculture while firmly embracing a cultural shift toward the East and its growing influence on the world stage.
