Artist: Tang Yongxiang, Timur Si-Qin
Booth: C3
VIP Preview: September 8th 2015, 12:00 – 18:00
Duration: September 9th – 11th, 12:00 – 18:00
September 12th – 13th, 12:00 – 18:00
Venue: West Bund Art Center
2555 Longteng Avenue, Xuhui District, Shanghai
Tang Yongxiang, A Glass Flower Vase, A Tennis Ball Underneath, 2015, Oil on canvas, 100×80cm, Courtesy the artist and Magician Space
Tang Yongxiang, Like A Hand On A Light Background, 2015, Oil on canvas, 40×50cm, Courtesy the artist and Magician Space
Tang Yongxiang, Like Two Basins, There Are Red Edges, Also A Black Line, 2015, Oil on canvas, 130×97cm, Courtesy the artist and Magician Space
Tang Yongxiang
In Tang Yongxiang’s work, objects and scenes are first captured unconsciously by camera, establishing a contingent relationship with the artist’s lived-experience. Without hierarchy, his paintings are suffused with fragments of scenes, gestures, body parts, objects and the shadowy absence of anonymous figures, which become internalised within an intimate web of relationships channelled through the artist’s painting. Seeking to attain an unfixed state beyond the directness of representation, his subjects circulate at a distance created by the untethering of an object from its context and entering them into a new logic.
Timur Si-Qin, The 8th Gate Sorting Processor, Plexiglass, metal, resin, paper, LED lights, 285×195×171cm, 2015, Courtesy the artist and Magician Space
Timur Si-Qin, Truth by Peace I, Light box, 450×200cm, 2015, Courtesy the artist and Magician Space
Timur Si-Qin
Timur Si-Qin is a leading figure in a new generation of artists associated with the contemporary philosophical movements of ‘New Materialism’ and ‘Speculative Realism’. In Si-Qin’s recent work, commercial and stock photography feature prominently, as well as displays such as photographic light-boxes and x-banner advertisements like those often-found in commercial malls and stores. Si-Qin instead seeks to examine a broader question of why patterns and shapes reoccur so persistently – looking to understand how materiality and its tendencies define contemporary experience and structure our interaction within the world.
