GAO Lei

Gao Lei’s art practice spans multiple media, including installation, sculpture, photography, and painting. Gao often adopts everyday objects and “standardized” industrial products as the essential component, whose works are manipulated through synthetic or abstract regulatory forms, in which the functions, properties, and meanings are tampered with or added through blurring transformation. Thus, they become a scale or model for measuring various domains such as the body, power, consumption, and religion. Through precise material testing and vectorization of graphics, Gao’s works, along with the objects they confront and the questions raised, alternate between spatial and conceptual dimensions, allowing the viewer to re-examine and remeasure our inherent boundaries with the world using a standard other than that of experience.

Gao’s works have been the subject of solo exhibitions at White Space (Beijing, China), Arario Gallery (Seoul, Korea), Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, etc. His works have also been exhibited in international art institutions including, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai), Long Museum, Tank Shanghai, Hao Art Museum, Guangdong Times Art Museum, Singapore Art Museum, Institute of Modern Art (Valencia, Spain), Tinguely Museum (Basel, Switzerland), Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus (Coblence, Germany), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Korea), and others.

SELECTED WORKS

GAO Lei

Beyond the Cave
2024
acrylic on canvas
100×70×5(h) cm

GAO Lei

Beyond the Cave
2024
acrylic on canvas, Egyptian coin from 1984
80×105×5(h) cm

GAO Lei

The Door of Perception
2023
acrylic on canvas
100×70×5(h) cm

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The World—Red Coral Turquoise Black Agate
2023
acrylic on canvas
60×80×5(h) cm

GAO Lei

The Pope Y
2023
acrylic on canvas, UV lens, aluminum lens cap
100×70×5(h) cm

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Black Mirror—Genesis
2023
acrylic on canvas
60×80×5(h) cm

GAO Lei

Day Lurk
2023
acrylic on canvas
90×90×5(h) cm

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Red
2022
acrylic on canvas, chain
105×75×5(h) cm

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V-CHERUBIM
2022
acrylic on canvas
160×120×5.5(h) cm

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The Origin
2021
acrylic on board, nickel
Ø165 cm

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X
2021
acrylic on board
150×260 cm

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Male
2021
colored pencil on paper
110×110 cm

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Male
2021
colored pencil on paper
110×110 cm

GAO Lei

HELLO
2021
aluminium plate, acrylic
113×160 cm×2, 155×96 cm, overall: 186×236 cm

GAO Lei

Kiwi and One-Dimensional Man
2021
acrylic on board
195×145 cm

GAO Lei

Joker-Hand & Head
2021
aluminium plate, resin, metallic paint, natural corallite
90×64 cm, 13×8×3.5(h) cm

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Fill the Foundation into the Engine
2021
PP sticker, metal engine model, cement, acrylic on board
120×160 cm, 18×10×8(h) cm

GAO Lei

Doris Miller CVN-81
2021
acrylic on board, window-shades, paint
90×80 cm, 297×140 cm

GAO Lei

Immortal Eternal Life; Data and the Pyramid
2021
aluminium plate, Egyptian 1984 coin
128×85 cm, 135×85 cm; 90×60 cm

GAO Lei

OH! And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
2021
graphite, tank model, acrylic, metal tube
56×25×24(h) cm overall dimension vibrable

GAO Lei

Ping-Yi
2019
photosensitive resin, PVC sewer pipe, steel wire
370×395×7200 cm

GAO Lei

125746KM
2019
paper, metallic paint, aluminum plate, acrylic mirror, tyre, steel wire, motor
106×76 cm×4, 21×75 cm×4, 120×38 cm

GAO Lei

CHEW
2018
door mat, chewing gum, stainless steel screw, non-reflective glass
60×90×5cm×4 pieces

GAO Lei

Messiah – J, Z-772, 5 Fusion Dreams
2017
aluminum basin, turbo water gun, syringe, bronze, wooden umbrella handle, stainless steel, hemp rope, disposable carpet, wooden staircase, rolling gate, hanger, belt
dimensions variable

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Confession
2017
tile, stainless steel, aluminum, acrylic, stainless steel floor drain, simulated monitor; video
250×180×15 cm, 4’55”

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Enzyme of The Trial
2017
aged wood, ceramic insulator of high-voltage cable, carpet
4.1 m, 2.9 m

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Reflection
2017
pistol model, fork, glass, linen
150×200×5 cm, 38×50×5 cm×2

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“Untitled” (box), “Untitled” (drum), “Untitled”(mechnical calculator)
2017
Epson ultra giclee print, hahnemuhle photo rag baryta
100×120×3.5 cm, 100×120×3.5 cm, 120×108×3.5 cm

GAO Lei

The Door of Perception
2016
bronze, stainless steel
Overall: 225×284×23 cm, Durian: 30×23×20 cm, Hot Water Bag: 36×19.5×9 cm

GAO Lei

On Site
2016
aluminum pot, mobile, steel wire
Pot: 15×19×22 cm×10
overall dimensions variable

GAO Lei

G-350
2013
parallel bars, nylon, screw
346×120×136 cm

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C-45
2013
sponge cushion, linen, bulldozer track
262×200×59 cm

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A-712
2013
stainless steel, lock cores
60×21×472 cm

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N-117
2013
acid-free paper print, cement, tractor model
85×116 cm, 28×15×12 cm

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H-5126
2014
oil painting on canvas, stainless steel, fire hose
150×200 cm

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R-01
2013
socket, police baton, IKEA table
60×128 cm

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L-01
2013
faucet, fur collar, IKEA table
60×128 cm

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C-275
2013
mixed media on canvas
200×150 cm

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T-3217
2012
stainless steel water pipes, bronze, brass, stainless steel and aluminum pelvis sculpture, pgoto, literature books in the late
1970s-The Chinese Female Pelvis Research, iron cabinet, medical pelvimeter, medical obstetric calipers
dimensions variable

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K7-Carrier
2011
installation
760×200×200 cm

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A305
2009
oil painting on canvas, mixed media, installation dynamic
180×220 cm, 300×300×230 cm

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NS24
2011
Goat headspecimen, medical human skeleton model, sheep skull, fleece,knitting wool, microphone, hooter, bathtub(from 1930-1940), barber chair(from 1970), mirror and tile
660×300×2800 cm

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