Tang Contemporary Art – Bangkok presents

BROADSHEET NOTATIONS:Projecting artworks on paper

Curator: Josef Ng

Artists:  
Chen ShaoXiong (China)
Liu XiaoDong (China)
Wu Xiaohai (China)
Zhang Peng (China)
Zhou Chunya (China)
Agus Suwage (Indonesia)
J. Ariadhitya Pramuhendra (Indonesia)
Kiko Escora (Philippines)
Phaptawan Suwannakud (Thailand)
Somyot Hananuntasuk/Thaiwijit Puengkasemsomboon (Thailand)
Tawan Wattuya (Thailand)

Date: October 21 – Nov 28, 2009
   
Exhibition Background
After a critical success at Tang Contemporary Art – Hong Kong, the exhibition journeys into Thailand with a new line up of artists who explore definitions produced on the fragility nature of paper.

Rather then positing a structure of influence between contemporary art and the intoxicating world of specific terrains as markers of identity and existence, the exhibition attempts to record, draw attention to, or address the phenomenon of a ubiquitous material that is slowly diminishing its statue as an everyday necessity.

Our society has become more and more E-centered. Our fingers have become more prone to the nature of typing rather than handwriting. Our eyes are equipped to staring more at pixels rather than feeling the tactility of fiber strands – the natural element paper is manufactured from.

The exhibited artists are representative, balanced and informative. The selected artworks are distinguished by distinctive nuances, in order to transverse personal and collective experience in the artist’s exploration of ideas, making viewers distinctly aware of the thought processes undertaken within the chosen material.

There are imageries as drawn out by the inner self, the cosmic life of the body, the spiritual qualities of letters and words. There are artworks that revolve around the notion of temporary, aspects that simply mean to establish a relationship between material and image, and paradigms to indicate coincidence and co-existence between expressions.