By Mike Kelley in the Collection

Since the late 1970s, Mike Kelly's diverse multimedia art practice is analyzing phenomena and behaviors often contradicted by essentialism and utopia thinking and often suppressed by the ideological system. In his performance, music, installation Kelly gets the material from high school memories, teens collections, pulp magazines, psychoanalysis theory and many other resources. Using works often considered non-artistic materials, his work pays special attention to the theory and practice of contemporary art, especially dreams and failures of modernism.

In 1983, the infinite expansion of Kelly was completed, and the artist lived in a small studio apartment in Hollywood. Painting begins with a small, nostalgic scene that spreads in illusion, staying between a fluid, unobtrusive line, woodgraining, and body organs. In connection with the poster of the underground punk rock in the late 1970's, this pain also suggests Kelly's concern about memory distortion over time. And it directly affects the project after him.

In many ways, Kelly ordered and explained the cultural phenomenon which is generally thought not worth studying. For example, his famous stuffed animal work from the late 1980s to the 1990s, using the waste and the quality of life, finally examining the childhood relationship that sublimed to adults, crafts and gifts Brought the world of art to the world of art. Critically accepting this process is often wrong and concentrates on Kelly's personal biography. In response, Kelly started using his own past and memories as a starting point for his work. In the 1995 Education Complex, he modeled on his school's memory, including his Catholic elementary school and Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan. Because of his memory change these models are incomplete in that Kelly can not recall the building and there is a hole in the artist that there may be some trauma.

Restoration of trauma and its influence on its memory was an idea within the gym in 2005. This piece is part of Kelly 's Immortal New York Show Day is Done. Each of the three devices starts with an image of a stranger in the collected high school yearbook. Kelly created his own imagination in the form of videos, installations, and sculptures. This work works through numerous historical reference points, digging up the past, shaping, discovering the disappointment and humiliation of the burial, such as the biblical story, Hindu ritual exercises, swan worship, Greek tragedy, To do.

In 1999, Hauser & Wirth London launched a memorial installation "Framed and Frame" in collaboration with Mike Kelley Art Foundation. Inspired by the leftover Chinese community of Los Angeles, frames and frames explore the conceptual space between reality and imagination. Jannis Kounellis was born in Piraeus, Greece in 1936, but moved to Rome in 1956. In connection with the movement of Arte Povera since 1967, his work features juxtaposition of elements including ready-made items. This exhibition focuses on the first works of Kunelis, the collection of alphabets, the works of paper, and the paintings. Also from the 1980s to the early 1990s, some other works on sculptures on paper and walls will be on display.

Hauser and Worth jointly held with the Mike Kelly Art Foundation to hold the first Kelly Art Exhibition in the gallery. The exhibition of works by late artists focuses on his series of Kandors, where he rewrote popular images and myths in American cartoon books. And reflects a special blend of high culture and basic pop culture Kelly. The show also highlights the diversity of Kelly as an artist, including sculptures, videos and a large installation of exhibitions.

"Restrained memory is called art" is a common theme of Mike Kelly's entire work theme. Kelly has a strong interest in Superman's myth, but even more interesting to him is that cartoons are inconsistent with Superman 's place of birth and hometown, and the city of Candor. From cartoon to manga, you can see the dramatic change in shape, size, city continuity and architectural style and architectural style - all variants are diverse hands of pen and colorist, detailed explanation And will be attributed to Kandor beyond abstract Superman existence range (from the 1930s to today)