MADSAKI

If I Had a Dream

July 17, 2019 - September 7, 2019

hong kong

50 CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL, 17TH FLOOR - HONG KONG

press release

603 people attended the opening.
2 047 people attended the exhibition.
The exhibition was open for 23 days.
Daily average 89 visitors per day including opening, 66 per day excluding opening.

MADSAKI’s solo show at Perrotin Hong Kong consists of works inspired by Andy Warhol, along with a selection of paintings depicting stills from Hong Kong cinema classics like Kung Fu Hustle and Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood For Love. MADSAKI, like Warhol before him, is skilled in the art of the hustle, and knows a fellow hustler when he sees one. Thus, where his previous copies of art historical “masterpieces” served to shore up the elitism of the western canon, MADSAKI’s reproductions of Warhol’s Flowers, Skulls, Guns, Dollar Signs, and Brillo Boxes stay much closer to the spirit of their sources, which were themselves often copies of some far distant original.