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Trading System: Installation at Shanghai International Science and Art Exhibition 2012; Solo Exhibition at University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh, 2012
Installation "Trading System" at Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in Sept 2012
"Trading System", 40” x 80” (106 x 212 cm) each vertical piece, 10 pieces, 212 x 1060 x 100 cm for the total installation space, artwork created from 2006- 2012 and exhibited at Gan Yu's Solo Exhibition at Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in Sept 2012
From an aesthetic perspective, the "Trading System" can serve as a piece of visual art. Over time, thousands of the sprawling numeric figures and clusters of constantly changing colors have transformed this “trading system” into continuous pieces of Hard-edge Abstract Paintings. The important message is that these patterns on the artwork were created not by the artist, but by numerous global investors from the stock market. Like an electrocardiograph for the U.S. economy, the Trading System registers investor behavior, disposition, and sentiments using numbers and colors. These functions are a new avenue of expression for abstract art.
The Trading System that Gan Yu independently developed during the “subprime mortgage crisis” in 2008 is both a conceptual installation piece as well as a tool for navigating the investment in the US stock market. To create the Trading System, Gan Yu selected 11 most important and sensitive indicators from the US stock market and laid them on one spreadsheet and tracked their daily fluctuations over three years. Gan Yu used three colors: green, white, and yellow, to represent rising, steady, and falling prices respectively, and each cell is a precise archive of market behavior. Superficially, it can serve as a tool to anticipate the direction in which the equity market will move and as a map for aspiring investors when navigating the opportunities and hazards of the U.S. equity market. These quantitative figures tell the story of current social and political conditions, economic performance, investor sentiment, and individual dispositions. They become authentic records linking together disparate periods of societal activity.
From an aesthetic perspective, the "Trading System" can serve as a piece of visual art. Over time, thousands of the sprawling numeric figures and clusters of constantly changing colors have transformed this “trading system” into continuous pieces of Hard-edge Abstract Paintings. The important message is that these patterns on the artwork were created not by the artist, but by numerous global investors from the stock market. Like an electrocardiograph for the U.S. economy, the Trading System registers investor behavior, disposition, and sentiments using numbers and colors. These functions are a new avenue of expression for abstract art.
The Trading System that Gan Yu independently developed during the “subprime mortgage crisis” in 2008 is both a conceptual installation piece as well as a tool for navigating the investment in the US stock market. To create the Trading System, Gan Yu selected 11 most important and sensitive indicators from the US stock market and laid them on one spreadsheet and tracked their daily fluctuations over three years. Gan Yu used three colors: green, white, and yellow, to represent rising, steady, and falling prices respectively, and each cell is a precise archive of market behavior. Superficially, it can serve as a tool to anticipate the direction in which the equity market will move and as a map for aspiring investors when navigating the opportunities and hazards of the U.S. equity market. These quantitative figures tell the story of current social and political conditions, economic performance, investor sentiment, and individual dispositions. They become authentic records linking together disparate periods of societal activity.
Installation "Trading System" at Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in Sept 2012
"Trading System", 40” x 80” (106 x 212 cm) each vertical piece, 10 pieces, 212 x 1060 x 100 cm for the total installation space, artwork created from 2006- 2012 and exhibited at Gan Yu's Solo Exhibition at Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in Sept 2012
From an aesthetic perspective, the "Trading System" can serve as a piece of visual art. Over time, thousands of the sprawling numeric figures and clusters of constantly changing colors have transformed this “trading system” into continuous pieces of Hard-edge Abstract Paintings. The important message is that these patterns on the artwork were created not by the artist, but by numerous global investors from the stock market. Like an electrocardiograph for the U.S. economy, the Trading System registers investor behavior, disposition, and sentiments using numbers and colors. These functions are a new avenue of expression for abstract art.
The Trading System that Gan Yu independently developed during the “subprime mortgage crisis” in 2008 is both a conceptual installation piece as well as a tool for navigating the investment in the US stock market. To create the Trading System, Gan Yu selected 11 most important and sensitive indicators from the US stock market and laid them on one spreadsheet and tracked their daily fluctuations over three years. Gan Yu used three colors: green, white, and yellow, to represent rising, steady, and falling prices respectively, and each cell is a precise archive of market behavior. Superficially, it can serve as a tool to anticipate the direction in which the equity market will move and as a map for aspiring investors when navigating the opportunities and hazards of the U.S. equity market. These quantitative figures tell the story of current social and political conditions, economic performance, investor sentiment, and individual dispositions. They become authentic records linking together disparate periods of societal activity.
From an aesthetic perspective, the "Trading System" can serve as a piece of visual art. Over time, thousands of the sprawling numeric figures and clusters of constantly changing colors have transformed this “trading system” into continuous pieces of Hard-edge Abstract Paintings. The important message is that these patterns on the artwork were created not by the artist, but by numerous global investors from the stock market. Like an electrocardiograph for the U.S. economy, the Trading System registers investor behavior, disposition, and sentiments using numbers and colors. These functions are a new avenue of expression for abstract art.
The Trading System that Gan Yu independently developed during the “subprime mortgage crisis” in 2008 is both a conceptual installation piece as well as a tool for navigating the investment in the US stock market. To create the Trading System, Gan Yu selected 11 most important and sensitive indicators from the US stock market and laid them on one spreadsheet and tracked their daily fluctuations over three years. Gan Yu used three colors: green, white, and yellow, to represent rising, steady, and falling prices respectively, and each cell is a precise archive of market behavior. Superficially, it can serve as a tool to anticipate the direction in which the equity market will move and as a map for aspiring investors when navigating the opportunities and hazards of the U.S. equity market. These quantitative figures tell the story of current social and political conditions, economic performance, investor sentiment, and individual dispositions. They become authentic records linking together disparate periods of societal activity.
Installation "Trading System" at Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in Sept 2012
"Trading System", 40” x 80” (106 x 212 cm) each vertical piece, 10 pieces, 212 x 1060 x 100 cm for the total installation space, artwork created from 2006- 2012 and exhibited at Gan Yu's Solo Exhibition at Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in Sept 2012
From an aesthetic perspective, the "Trading System" can serve as a piece of visual art. Over time, thousands of the sprawling numeric figures and clusters of constantly changing colors have transformed this “trading system” into continuous pieces of Hard-edge Abstract Paintings. The important message is that these patterns on the artwork were created not by the artist, but by numerous global investors from the stock market. Like an electrocardiograph for the U.S. economy, the Trading System registers investor behavior, disposition, and sentiments using numbers and colors. These functions are a new avenue of expression for abstract art.
The Trading System that Gan Yu independently developed during the “subprime mortgage crisis” in 2008 is both a conceptual installation piece as well as a tool for navigating the investment in the US stock market. To create the Trading System, Gan Yu selected 11 most important and sensitive indicators from the US stock market and laid them on one spreadsheet and tracked their daily fluctuations over three years. Gan Yu used three colors: green, white, and yellow, to represent rising, steady, and falling prices respectively, and each cell is a precise archive of market behavior. Superficially, it can serve as a tool to anticipate the direction in which the equity market will move and as a map for aspiring investors when navigating the opportunities and hazards of the U.S. equity market. These quantitative figures tell the story of current social and political conditions, economic performance, investor sentiment, and individual dispositions. They become authentic records linking together disparate periods of societal activity.
From an aesthetic perspective, the "Trading System" can serve as a piece of visual art. Over time, thousands of the sprawling numeric figures and clusters of constantly changing colors have transformed this “trading system” into continuous pieces of Hard-edge Abstract Paintings. The important message is that these patterns on the artwork were created not by the artist, but by numerous global investors from the stock market. Like an electrocardiograph for the U.S. economy, the Trading System registers investor behavior, disposition, and sentiments using numbers and colors. These functions are a new avenue of expression for abstract art.
The Trading System that Gan Yu independently developed during the “subprime mortgage crisis” in 2008 is both a conceptual installation piece as well as a tool for navigating the investment in the US stock market. To create the Trading System, Gan Yu selected 11 most important and sensitive indicators from the US stock market and laid them on one spreadsheet and tracked their daily fluctuations over three years. Gan Yu used three colors: green, white, and yellow, to represent rising, steady, and falling prices respectively, and each cell is a precise archive of market behavior. Superficially, it can serve as a tool to anticipate the direction in which the equity market will move and as a map for aspiring investors when navigating the opportunities and hazards of the U.S. equity market. These quantitative figures tell the story of current social and political conditions, economic performance, investor sentiment, and individual dispositions. They become authentic records linking together disparate periods of societal activity.
Installation "Trading System" at Shanghai International Science/Art Exhibition 2012
"Trading System", 40” x 80” (106 x 212 cm) each vertical piece, 10 pieces, 212 x 1060 x 100 cm for the total installation space, artwork created from 2006- 2012 and exhibited at “Joy of Innovation”, Shanghai International Science and Art Exhibition in May 2012
From an aesthetic perspective, the "Trading System" can serve as a piece of visual art. Over time, thousands of the sprawling numeric figures and clusters of constantly changing colors have transformed this “trading system” into continuous pieces of Hard-edge Abstract Paintings. The important message is that these patterns on the artwork were created not by the artist, but by numerous global investors from the stock market. Like an electrocardiograph for the U.S. economy, the Trading System registers investor behavior, disposition, and sentiments using numbers and colors. These functions are a new avenue of expression for abstract art.
The Trading System that Gan Yu independently developed during the “subprime mortgage crisis” in 2008 is both a conceptual installation piece as well as a tool for navigating the investment in the US stock market. To create the Trading System, Gan Yu selected 11 most important and sensitive indicators from the US stock market and laid them on one spreadsheet and tracked their daily fluctuations over three years. Gan Yu used three colors: green, white, and yellow, to represent rising, steady, and falling prices respectively, and each cell is a precise archive of market behavior. Superficially, it can serve as a tool to anticipate the direction in which the equity market will move and as a map for aspiring investors when navigating the opportunities and hazards of the U.S. equity market. These quantitative figures tell the story of current social and political conditions, economic performance, investor sentiment, and individual dispositions. They become authentic records linking together disparate periods of societal activity.
From an aesthetic perspective, the "Trading System" can serve as a piece of visual art. Over time, thousands of the sprawling numeric figures and clusters of constantly changing colors have transformed this “trading system” into continuous pieces of Hard-edge Abstract Paintings. The important message is that these patterns on the artwork were created not by the artist, but by numerous global investors from the stock market. Like an electrocardiograph for the U.S. economy, the Trading System registers investor behavior, disposition, and sentiments using numbers and colors. These functions are a new avenue of expression for abstract art.
The Trading System that Gan Yu independently developed during the “subprime mortgage crisis” in 2008 is both a conceptual installation piece as well as a tool for navigating the investment in the US stock market. To create the Trading System, Gan Yu selected 11 most important and sensitive indicators from the US stock market and laid them on one spreadsheet and tracked their daily fluctuations over three years. Gan Yu used three colors: green, white, and yellow, to represent rising, steady, and falling prices respectively, and each cell is a precise archive of market behavior. Superficially, it can serve as a tool to anticipate the direction in which the equity market will move and as a map for aspiring investors when navigating the opportunities and hazards of the U.S. equity market. These quantitative figures tell the story of current social and political conditions, economic performance, investor sentiment, and individual dispositions. They become authentic records linking together disparate periods of societal activity.
Installation "Trading System" at Shanghai International Science/Art Exhibition 2012
"Trading System", 40” x 80” (106 x 212 cm) each vertical piece, 10 pieces, 212 x 1060 x 100 cm for the total installation space, artwork created from 2006- 2012 and exhibited at “Joy of Innovation”, Shanghai International Science and Art Exhibition in May 2012
From an aesthetic perspective, the "Trading System" can serve as a piece of visual art. Over time, thousands of the sprawling numeric figures and clusters of constantly changing colors have transformed this “trading system” into continuous pieces of Hard-edge Abstract Paintings. The important message is that these patterns on the artwork were created not by the artist, but by numerous global investors from the stock market. Like an electrocardiograph for the U.S. economy, the Trading System registers investor behavior, disposition, and sentiments using numbers and colors. These functions are a new avenue of expression for abstract art.
The Trading System that Gan Yu independently developed during the “subprime mortgage crisis” in 2008 is both a conceptual installation piece as well as a tool for navigating the investment in the US stock market. To create the Trading System, Gan Yu selected 11 most important and sensitive indicators from the US stock market and laid them on one spreadsheet and tracked their daily fluctuations over three years. Gan Yu used three colors: green, white, and yellow, to represent rising, steady, and falling prices respectively, and each cell is a precise archive of market behavior. Superficially, it can serve as a tool to anticipate the direction in which the equity market will move and as a map for aspiring investors when navigating the opportunities and hazards of the U.S. equity market. These quantitative figures tell the story of current social and political conditions, economic performance, investor sentiment, and individual dispositions. They become authentic records linking together disparate periods of societal activity.
From an aesthetic perspective, the "Trading System" can serve as a piece of visual art. Over time, thousands of the sprawling numeric figures and clusters of constantly changing colors have transformed this “trading system” into continuous pieces of Hard-edge Abstract Paintings. The important message is that these patterns on the artwork were created not by the artist, but by numerous global investors from the stock market. Like an electrocardiograph for the U.S. economy, the Trading System registers investor behavior, disposition, and sentiments using numbers and colors. These functions are a new avenue of expression for abstract art.
The Trading System that Gan Yu independently developed during the “subprime mortgage crisis” in 2008 is both a conceptual installation piece as well as a tool for navigating the investment in the US stock market. To create the Trading System, Gan Yu selected 11 most important and sensitive indicators from the US stock market and laid them on one spreadsheet and tracked their daily fluctuations over three years. Gan Yu used three colors: green, white, and yellow, to represent rising, steady, and falling prices respectively, and each cell is a precise archive of market behavior. Superficially, it can serve as a tool to anticipate the direction in which the equity market will move and as a map for aspiring investors when navigating the opportunities and hazards of the U.S. equity market. These quantitative figures tell the story of current social and political conditions, economic performance, investor sentiment, and individual dispositions. They become authentic records linking together disparate periods of societal activity.
Installation "Trading System" at Shanghai International Science/Art Exhibition 2012
"Trading System", 40” x 80” (106 x 212 cm) each vertical piece, 10 pieces, 212 x 1060 x 100 cm for the total installation space, artwork created from 2006- 2012 and exhibited at “Joy of Innovation”, Shanghai International Science and Art Exhibition in May 2012
From an aesthetic perspective, the "Trading System" can serve as a piece of visual art. Over time, thousands of the sprawling numeric figures and clusters of constantly changing colors have transformed this “trading system” into continuous pieces of Hard-edge Abstract Paintings. The important message is that these patterns on the artwork were created not by the artist, but by numerous global investors from the stock market. Like an electrocardiograph for the U.S. economy, the Trading System registers investor behavior, disposition, and sentiments using numbers and colors. These functions are a new avenue of expression for abstract art.
The Trading System that Gan Yu independently developed during the “subprime mortgage crisis” in 2008 is both a conceptual installation piece as well as a tool for navigating the investment in the US stock market. To create the Trading System, Gan Yu selected 11 most important and sensitive indicators from the US stock market and laid them on one spreadsheet and tracked their daily fluctuations over three years. Gan Yu used three colors: green, white, and yellow, to represent rising, steady, and falling prices respectively, and each cell is a precise archive of market behavior. Superficially, it can serve as a tool to anticipate the direction in which the equity market will move and as a map for aspiring investors when navigating the opportunities and hazards of the U.S. equity market. These quantitative figures tell the story of current social and political conditions, economic performance, investor sentiment, and individual dispositions. They become authentic records linking together disparate periods of societal activity.
From an aesthetic perspective, the "Trading System" can serve as a piece of visual art. Over time, thousands of the sprawling numeric figures and clusters of constantly changing colors have transformed this “trading system” into continuous pieces of Hard-edge Abstract Paintings. The important message is that these patterns on the artwork were created not by the artist, but by numerous global investors from the stock market. Like an electrocardiograph for the U.S. economy, the Trading System registers investor behavior, disposition, and sentiments using numbers and colors. These functions are a new avenue of expression for abstract art.
The Trading System that Gan Yu independently developed during the “subprime mortgage crisis” in 2008 is both a conceptual installation piece as well as a tool for navigating the investment in the US stock market. To create the Trading System, Gan Yu selected 11 most important and sensitive indicators from the US stock market and laid them on one spreadsheet and tracked their daily fluctuations over three years. Gan Yu used three colors: green, white, and yellow, to represent rising, steady, and falling prices respectively, and each cell is a precise archive of market behavior. Superficially, it can serve as a tool to anticipate the direction in which the equity market will move and as a map for aspiring investors when navigating the opportunities and hazards of the U.S. equity market. These quantitative figures tell the story of current social and political conditions, economic performance, investor sentiment, and individual dispositions. They become authentic records linking together disparate periods of societal activity.
Installation "Trading System" at Shanghai International Science/Art Exhibition 2012
"Trading System", 40” x 80” (106 x 212 cm) each vertical piece, 10 pieces, 212 x 1060 x 100 cm for the total installation space, artwork created from 2006- 2012 and exhibited at “Joy of Innovation”, Shanghai International Science and Art Exhibition in May 2012
From an aesthetic perspective, the "Trading System" can serve as a piece of visual art. Over time, thousands of the sprawling numeric figures and clusters of constantly changing colors have transformed this “trading system” into continuous pieces of Hard-edge Abstract Paintings. The important message is that these patterns on the artwork were created not by the artist, but by numerous global investors from the stock market. Like an electrocardiograph for the U.S. economy, the Trading System registers investor behavior, disposition, and sentiments using numbers and colors. These functions are a new avenue of expression for abstract art.
The Trading System that Gan Yu independently developed during the “subprime mortgage crisis” in 2008 is both a conceptual installation piece as well as a tool for navigating the investment in the US stock market. To create the Trading System, Gan Yu selected 11 most important and sensitive indicators from the US stock market and laid them on one spreadsheet and tracked their daily fluctuations over three years. Gan Yu used three colors: green, white, and yellow, to represent rising, steady, and falling prices respectively, and each cell is a precise archive of market behavior. Superficially, it can serve as a tool to anticipate the direction in which the equity market will move and as a map for aspiring investors when navigating the opportunities and hazards of the U.S. equity market. These quantitative figures tell the story of current social and political conditions, economic performance, investor sentiment, and individual dispositions. They become authentic records linking together disparate periods of societal activity.
From an aesthetic perspective, the "Trading System" can serve as a piece of visual art. Over time, thousands of the sprawling numeric figures and clusters of constantly changing colors have transformed this “trading system” into continuous pieces of Hard-edge Abstract Paintings. The important message is that these patterns on the artwork were created not by the artist, but by numerous global investors from the stock market. Like an electrocardiograph for the U.S. economy, the Trading System registers investor behavior, disposition, and sentiments using numbers and colors. These functions are a new avenue of expression for abstract art.
The Trading System that Gan Yu independently developed during the “subprime mortgage crisis” in 2008 is both a conceptual installation piece as well as a tool for navigating the investment in the US stock market. To create the Trading System, Gan Yu selected 11 most important and sensitive indicators from the US stock market and laid them on one spreadsheet and tracked their daily fluctuations over three years. Gan Yu used three colors: green, white, and yellow, to represent rising, steady, and falling prices respectively, and each cell is a precise archive of market behavior. Superficially, it can serve as a tool to anticipate the direction in which the equity market will move and as a map for aspiring investors when navigating the opportunities and hazards of the U.S. equity market. These quantitative figures tell the story of current social and political conditions, economic performance, investor sentiment, and individual dispositions. They become authentic records linking together disparate periods of societal activity.
Installation "Trading System" at Shanghai International Science/Art Exhibition 2012
"Trading System", 40” x 80” (106 x 212 cm) each vertical piece, 10 pieces, 212 x 1060 x 100 cm for the total installation space, artwork created from 2006- 2012 and exhibited at “Joy of Innovation”, Shanghai International Science and Art Exhibition in May 2012
From an aesthetic perspective, the "Trading System" can serve as a piece of visual art. Over time, thousands of the sprawling numeric figures and clusters of constantly changing colors have transformed this “trading system” into continuous pieces of Hard-edge Abstract Paintings. The important message is that these patterns on the artwork were created not by the artist, but by numerous global investors from the stock market. Like an electrocardiograph for the U.S. economy, the Trading System registers investor behavior, disposition, and sentiments using numbers and colors. These functions are a new avenue of expression for abstract art.
The Trading System that Gan Yu independently developed during the “subprime mortgage crisis” in 2008 is both a conceptual installation piece as well as a tool for navigating the investment in the US stock market. To create the Trading System, Gan Yu selected 11 most important and sensitive indicators from the US stock market and laid them on one spreadsheet and tracked their daily fluctuations over three years. Gan Yu used three colors: green, white, and yellow, to represent rising, steady, and falling prices respectively, and each cell is a precise archive of market behavior. Superficially, it can serve as a tool to anticipate the direction in which the equity market will move and as a map for aspiring investors when navigating the opportunities and hazards of the U.S. equity market. These quantitative figures tell the story of current social and political conditions, economic performance, investor sentiment, and individual dispositions. They become authentic records linking together disparate periods of societal activity.
From an aesthetic perspective, the "Trading System" can serve as a piece of visual art. Over time, thousands of the sprawling numeric figures and clusters of constantly changing colors have transformed this “trading system” into continuous pieces of Hard-edge Abstract Paintings. The important message is that these patterns on the artwork were created not by the artist, but by numerous global investors from the stock market. Like an electrocardiograph for the U.S. economy, the Trading System registers investor behavior, disposition, and sentiments using numbers and colors. These functions are a new avenue of expression for abstract art.
The Trading System that Gan Yu independently developed during the “subprime mortgage crisis” in 2008 is both a conceptual installation piece as well as a tool for navigating the investment in the US stock market. To create the Trading System, Gan Yu selected 11 most important and sensitive indicators from the US stock market and laid them on one spreadsheet and tracked their daily fluctuations over three years. Gan Yu used three colors: green, white, and yellow, to represent rising, steady, and falling prices respectively, and each cell is a precise archive of market behavior. Superficially, it can serve as a tool to anticipate the direction in which the equity market will move and as a map for aspiring investors when navigating the opportunities and hazards of the U.S. equity market. These quantitative figures tell the story of current social and political conditions, economic performance, investor sentiment, and individual dispositions. They become authentic records linking together disparate periods of societal activity.
Installation "Trading System" at Shanghai International Science/Art Exhibition 2012
"Trading System", 40” x 80” (106 x 212 cm) each vertical piece, 10 pieces, 212 x 1060 x 100 cm for the total installation space, artwork created from 2006- 2012 and exhibited at “Joy of Innovation”, Shanghai International Science and Art Exhibition in May 2012
From an aesthetic perspective, the "Trading System" can serve as a piece of visual art. Over time, thousands of the sprawling numeric figures and clusters of constantly changing colors have transformed this “trading system” into continuous pieces of Hard-edge Abstract Paintings. The important message is that these patterns on the artwork were created not by the artist, but by numerous global investors from the stock market. Like an electrocardiograph for the U.S. economy, the Trading System registers investor behavior, disposition, and sentiments using numbers and colors. These functions are a new avenue of expression for abstract art.
The Trading System that Gan Yu independently developed during the “subprime mortgage crisis” in 2008 is both a conceptual installation piece as well as a tool for navigating the investment in the US stock market. To create the Trading System, Gan Yu selected 11 most important and sensitive indicators from the US stock market and laid them on one spreadsheet and tracked their daily fluctuations over three years. Gan Yu used three colors: green, white, and yellow, to represent rising, steady, and falling prices respectively, and each cell is a precise archive of market behavior. Superficially, it can serve as a tool to anticipate the direction in which the equity market will move and as a map for aspiring investors when navigating the opportunities and hazards of the U.S. equity market. These quantitative figures tell the story of current social and political conditions, economic performance, investor sentiment, and individual dispositions. They become authentic records linking together disparate periods of societal activity.
From an aesthetic perspective, the "Trading System" can serve as a piece of visual art. Over time, thousands of the sprawling numeric figures and clusters of constantly changing colors have transformed this “trading system” into continuous pieces of Hard-edge Abstract Paintings. The important message is that these patterns on the artwork were created not by the artist, but by numerous global investors from the stock market. Like an electrocardiograph for the U.S. economy, the Trading System registers investor behavior, disposition, and sentiments using numbers and colors. These functions are a new avenue of expression for abstract art.
The Trading System that Gan Yu independently developed during the “subprime mortgage crisis” in 2008 is both a conceptual installation piece as well as a tool for navigating the investment in the US stock market. To create the Trading System, Gan Yu selected 11 most important and sensitive indicators from the US stock market and laid them on one spreadsheet and tracked their daily fluctuations over three years. Gan Yu used three colors: green, white, and yellow, to represent rising, steady, and falling prices respectively, and each cell is a precise archive of market behavior. Superficially, it can serve as a tool to anticipate the direction in which the equity market will move and as a map for aspiring investors when navigating the opportunities and hazards of the U.S. equity market. These quantitative figures tell the story of current social and political conditions, economic performance, investor sentiment, and individual dispositions. They become authentic records linking together disparate periods of societal activity.
The Trading System that Gan Yu independently developed during the “subprime mortgage crisis” in 2008 is both a conceptual installation piece as well as a tool for navigating the investment in the US stock market. To create the Trading System, Gan Yu selected 11 most important and sensitive indicators from the US stock market and laid them on one spreadsheet and tracked their daily fluctuations over three years. Gan Yu used three colors: green, white, and yellow, to represent rising, steady, and falling prices respectively, and each cell is a precise archive of market behavior. Superficially, it can serve as a tool to anticipate the direction in which the equity market will move and as a map for aspiring investors when navigating the opportunities and hazards of the U.S. equity market. These quantitative figures tell the story of current social and political conditions, economic performance, investor sentiment, and individual dispositions. They become authentic records linking together disparate periods of societal activity.
From an aesthetic perspective, the Trading System can serve as a piece of visual art. Over time, thousands of the sprawling numeric figures and clusters of constantly changing colors have transformed this “trading system” into continuous pieces of Hard-edge Abstract Paintings. The important message is that these patterns on the artwork were created not by the artist, but by numerous global investors from the stock market. Like an electrocardiograph for the U.S. economy, the Trading System registers investor behavior, disposition, and sentiments using numbers and colors. These functions are a new avenue of expression for abstract art.
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