Dear friends,
YANG GALLERY • Singapore cordially invites you to ‘Mobile Theatre & Head in Art’ Tamen+ and DAVID David Joint Solo Exhibition opening cocktail on 26th Jan 2018, 3-6pm.
Artists will be in attendance. RSVP: shion@yanggallery.com.sg / +65 6721 8888
We look forward to your presence!
About TAMEN+
Renowned contemporary art duo Tamen+
Lai Shengyu and Yang Xiaogang form the artist duo Tamen, which means “they” in Mandarin. They, “They”, stage outrageous, surrealistic scenes in paint and photo collage that star an ever-changing cast of characters. Though the scenes always take place on the same fictional “stage”—the corner of a cafeteria-like room in an urban high-rise—the location of the room shifts constantly as the window opens onto new horizons in every image. These collaborative paintings have more than just the two personalities that make them—they may be classifiable as fully schizophrenic.
‘An epoch of the late 70’s generation, THEY reveal their attitudes toward realities of society and their circumstances in a different approach from the artists of the older generation. THEY, through interior and conflicting juxtaposition, displays contradictory nature of society that is both corrupt and progressive. However, they do not reject nor expresses any sarcasm toward the real world seen outside the window. Individuals are merely consuming or entertaining themselves.
Inside an individual surrounding environment and corrupted private space, inner and outer realm are juxtaposed. While other young artists are infatuated with the characterization of private narratives, THEY unveils inherent conditions and hidden aspects of the internal through the breach of the exterior. From this immanent observation THEY becomes the ‘true other’.’
About DAVID David
Born in Nancy, France, it has been five years since DAVID David lives and works in Cannes, a city which knew how to recognize the talent of a thirty-year old who quickly made a name in the merciless world of the Art.
David David unquestionably found his signature, “The Head in Art” which is the name of one of its works which illustrates well the image of the artist in love of art to the point that it cannot stop thinking of it. That is why we find systematically this bucket of paint knocked down on the head of his characters. Whereas in some of DAVID David’s works, we can notice a multiplication of FORYOU which is transcribed hundreds and hundreds of times.
His universe, his artistic intelligence throws us in multitudes of colors and materials with its splashes of brightly-colored paint and mixed medias. His work offers a retrospective of current street art in miniature, the past and present of street art, combining the obsession with comic books mixed with the aesthetics of the contemporary graffiti movement.