EXHIBITION

Tiong Ang: Unwanted Celebration

Lynch Tham, New York, New York, 04/02/2014 - 05/25/2014

175 Rivington Street

ABOUT

LYNCH THAM is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by Dutch artist Tiong Ang, his first in New York in five years.

Within the complex oeuvre of conceptual artist/painter/filmmaker Tiong Ang (Surabaya, 1961), certain common elements about the nature of identity, cultural meaning and social absorption emerge. Using media specific to his topic, Ang explores people’s negotiations within an ethically and culturally hybridized world. His practice leads from solitary, painted pictures to situations, processed to signify the tension between an individual, subjective stance and a collective, normative order.

This exhibition is set up as a range of disparate images juxtaposed in a both sequential and spatial intervention that generates a ‘contradictory space,’ where mutual contestation rules. All images, related to different projects – an unfolded sheet of white paper held by two pair of hands in an Indonesian rice field, a large black and white portrait of an enigmatic young sculptor at work, a small picture of Brad Pitt as a child, among others, carry with them both the moment of desire and that of creation. The exhibition as a whole alludes to cinematic estrangement, a collision of cultures and trades, imposing the alienating impact of exoticism, and its parallels with our multifaceted, media driven society as a succession of promises and displacements.

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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Tiong Ang

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