Curator：Lu Mingjun

Opening: 15:00, Saturday, March 5th, 2016
Duration: March 5th, 2016 – April 10th, 2016
Venue : Platform China Contemporary Art Institute
Address: D07 Main 2nd Street, 798 Art District, Beijing

Tang Dayao’s solo exhibition “Strange Guest” will be launched at Platform China Contemporary Art institute on the 5th of March 2016. The show will be run until April 10th， it is Tang Dayao’s first solo exhibition in Beijing.

Strange Guest is the title of a new painting by Tang Dayao. It depicts an everyday scene from his memory and experience: last year, he returned to his hometown in Hunan Province for the Spring Festival holiday. One day, he saw a person in rags standing at the gate. The dog in the courtyard began to bark, and Tang’s brother, out of habit, came out to scold the dog. This ordinary scene rekindled a memory from his childhood. He remembered that when he was young, his home was always quiet. He yearned for activity, and hoped a guest would come. Later, when he went to Guangzhou to study, he grew accustomed to the solitary life. At this moment, the picture fixes a moment that is at once familiar and strange as he attempts to draw the psychological imagery and experiential perception of “living elsewhere” into his painting practice.