Singapore Art Museum
Till 25 December 2011

Korean artist Hyung Koo Kang is highly regarded for his intense and seemingly photorealist self-portraits, and paintings of well-known personalities such as Vincent van Gogh, Andy Warhol, and Audrey Hepburn, among others. Portrait painting aims to depict the visual appearance of a subject, usually a person. Historically, portraiture has often been the purview of the rich and powerful, as memorials and physical expressions of individual greatness and stature. The apparent familiarity of his celebrity subjects and brilliantly executed hyperrealist technique are, however, masks for the fabrications and distortions in his portrait paintings.

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