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Exhibition of new works by artist Gordon Cheung opens at Alan Cristea Gallery

LONDON.- The Alan Cristea Gallery will stage an exhibition of new works, Gordon Cheung: The Light that Burns Twice as Bright, from 14 September to 5 October 2011. Cheung’s multi-media artistic vision is fuelled by an anxious reflection on the current state of affairs in capitalist societies. He invokes prophetic visions of the impending end of our civilization: epic, sublime but terrifying revelations of post-apocalyptic landscapes, set against the backdrop of stock listings collage. He cross-references the cultural, mythological, political, religious and artistic to capture the ‘desert of the real’: a hyper-real cyberscape of toxic undertones and noxious glows, complete with rampaging fauna, paranoiac hallucinations of collapsing architecture and techno-psychedelic biblical apparitions. His oeuvre can be