Noh Gyeong Hwan 21st Century Mona Lisa
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About This Work
In **“Noh Gyeong Hwan 21st Century Mona Lisa,”** **NOMA** reimagines Leonardo’s iconic sitter through a contemporary Korean lens, fusing art-historical quotation with sharp cultural commentary. Working with a precision-led, mixed-media approach—layered surface, graphic contouring, and digitally inflected colour—NOMA builds an image that feels at once painterly and hypermodern, as if mediated by screens, branding, and public spectacle. The work’s quiet gaze becomes a site of negotiation between Western canon and East Asian identity, addressing how icons are circulated, localised, and re-authored in a global visual economy. Both portrait and proposition, this “Mona Lisa” speaks to 21st-century hybridity, celebrity, and the politics of representation.
About the Artist
G.HWANNOH.NOMA NOMA BIOGRAPHY CONTEMPORARY MAN 21ST CENTURY’S MONA LISA It’s one of the many organisms with which we share life in the modern era in which we live, and on the other hand, it’s only one of the 21st century’s expendable products which could disappear at any time.
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