About Shaun Gladwell (尚恩．格萊德維爾)
About Shaun Gladwell
Treating his personal experiences as the point of departure, Gladwell not only infuses his works with the elements of contemporary culture and art history, but also makes a mutual reference between these elements and traditional classics. He tends to challenge the viewers’ visual limit to dynamic images with a variety of forms such as performance, video, and photography. In recent years, the artist has been focusing on video creations that integrate the elements of street subculture such as skateboard, hip-hop, graffiti, extreme bike, and street dance. The protagonist intervenes in the space by performing fluid and swift body motions as well as extraordinary athletic skills, establishing a poetic dialogue that brims with critical implications. The artist often appropriates the categories and concepts in art history to construct the riveting scenes in his video works. His ingenious video composition evokes all kinds of associations for the viewers. He blends classics into contemporary art, opening up new aesthetic horizons beyond painting and photography for visual art.