Hong Kong’s J Plus Hotel by YOO unveiled an exclusive exhibition “The Nadeshiko” by an Irish urban-contemporary artist, Fin DAC, at Art@JPlus, a dedicated art space at the hotel last month. The new pop-up exhibition showcases 10 of Fin DAC’s most iconic street art pieces, created for his show in Venice, California and re-envisioned for this show using a unique printing format on bamboo and brushed aluminium.
Fin DAC is known for an atypical paint/stencil style which confronts the norms of the visual language of street art. He dubs this method “Urban Aesthetics” – his modern-day take on a 19th century art movement. Though Fin DAC’s work can be seen on walls, boats and rooftops on four continents of the world, his first-ever solo show “The Nadeshiko” only launched in June 2015 and was a complete sell out.
The imagery of “The Nadeshiko” is a culmination of a 3 year phase of the street artist’s life. The work hints at the notions of ordinary women depicted as superheroes. Pan-Asian and Latina female characters with monochromatic skin tones are the anchors in which Fin Dac’s stories unfold.
The splashes of bright colour emblazoned across a wild mix of traditional ethnic style and high-end Western fashion, coupled with those brightly coloured ‘superhero’ masks, give each of the women in the series an individual story. The fashion they wear: from headdresses, necklaces, bracelets, to impossible hairstyles and tattoos perpetuate an air of mystery, as if each of the women in the paintings has more to reveal.
Fin DAC’s ‘The Nadeshiko’ exhibition will be running until February 28, 2016 at the Art@JPlus of J Plus Hotel by YOO at 1-5 Irving Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.
