LEEGA & CHUCK

APRIL 27TH — MAY 9TH 2017

Art as an apparatus and a showcase of curious minds, Homo Ludens Apparatus, intend to exhibit Artist Leegan and Chuck’s latest painting, print, object, and installation in a viewpoint of turn of the century anthropological study. Not only these works represent various influences from natural science, psychology, anthropological archetypes and turn of the century model of fringe and pseudo science, both artists’ work shows degree of child-like wonder that satisfy each individual’s whimsical yet dark fantasies.

In this exhibition, Chuck Hohng will show his never been seen print as well as some of his previous series of portraits which were inspired by fayum and grotesque masks, which marks his interest to create an object or an image that includes several different cultural and historical aspect as a tool of his creations. As a part of this exhibition, installation piece inspired by oddities and the cabinet of curiosities will be presented.

“There’s this inevitable quality of tragedy within his paintings, even with the most adorable piece of painting he would create. His animals, domesticated or wild, real or imaginary, live off of the peripheral of urbanscape, somewhat lost and always on a verge of becoming. That vulnerable being of existence, with animals being transported from their motherlands to somewhere in the city, also suggests longing and also the feeling of lost. This exhibition goes even deeper into questioning the reason of existence as well as something very fundamental: ‘what are we? Where are we from? And Where are we going?’ Both of our works reflects the past for the future of unknown, somewhat dark and undoubtedly whimsical.”

LEEGA & CHUCK