Frantic Gallery opens 2014 exhibition season with its third time participating in Art Stage Singapore Art Fair. We are glad to come back to the central for South-East Asia art fair and present for the first time in Singapore works by Cousteau Tazuke, who transcends the borderline between painting and sculpture and dedicates his artistic attention to the key painterly elements, The Line and The Dot. 

As before Tazuke carves into clear acrylic panels, pours acid-colored paint in the resulting cavities and then exhibits these works backwards, thus integrating "the front" and "the rear" - the positive and negative - of the picture. To reveal this tricky structure at Art stage 2014 we are glad to present The Screens of the artist, paintings made with acrylic resin and paint, which are installed on the metal base in the way both front and back side of it can be seen, thus transforming the topology of this traditionally two-dimensional art. 

The networks of geometrically strict lines complicates the relationship between surface and depth inside 10mm-thick acrylic resin planes. With different methods each piece in its own way strives to generate in itself immeasurable "infinity" and emit the feeling of enormous compression of space. While carved/painted lines in acrylic planes generate "bottomlessness," highly reflective surface of work "activates" the image of an onlooker, bringing him/her onto and inside the work, gradually dragging the surrounding real space in its depth. 

*image (left)
© Cousteau Tazuke
courtesy of the artist and Frantic Gallery