Gana Art hosts the private exhibition of Ahn Chang Hong, titled “An Inconvenient Truth”. Ahn Chang Hong is an artist who has made keen representations of the contradictions and absurdities of life through his critical view of the society. During the past 30 years, he has held 27 exhibitions, including both private and group exhibitions, to use his experimental and provocative formative language to express the absurdity of life and the scars and loneliness of the lower middle class. His non-compromising artistic commitment against the trends and authority of our time has been favorably received among artists and art lovers.

At this private exhibition, there are some 40 nude series that portrait the bodies of socially marginalized or neglected people. The models are a farmer, a tattoo expert, a department sales person, who are real people around the artist himself. The nude portraits of such real people are realistic and explicit, and they express healthy “bodies” that thoroughly reveal the personalities and lives of the models. The reckless faces of the models standing in the middle of a messy and paint-stained studio show a sense of confidence of being freed from the insecurity of a lower-middle class life. In the pictures, one finds a strong sense of charm that makes it impossible to turn one’s eyes away, even if one wishes to ignore them.

As such, Ahn Chang Hong pays tribute to the truthful bodies with traces of life, by representing the unrefined “body”. As a matter of fact, his provocative and discomforting nude portraits are a metaphor of the “an inconvenient truth”, the absurdity of the times hidden and excluded by social authority. The exhibition will showcase the artistic world of Ahn Chang Hong, where he creates eccentric and charismatic portraits that represent his inner conflict intermingled with a sensual and decadent sentiment.