For Art Jakarta 2019, TKG+ is pleased to present works by Mit Jai Inn and Sawangwongse Yawnghwe. The artists project their senses and memories toward sutures in the social systems in which they are located, exposing critical coordinates sought from the poetics bonds of contemporary art. The two artists dismantle and reconstruct cultural symbols that flow between aesthetics, politics and history, allowing the act of art making to chisel one metaphorical edifice after another within the contemporary context, while intermixing history, memory, and location with dialectic, beckoning the viewer to contemplate the time and space within which they are located.
Making a splash at Biennale of Sydney, and also active in the contemporary art sphere and political communities of Thailand, artist Mit Jai Inn (b. 1960) is best known for his vibrant abstract painting installations. Actively using art to explore socio-political influences, he transforms the relationship between the reading of art and spatial interventions through a dialogue between installation-style paintings and the spaces they occupy, a practice based on large-scale works that correspond to culture, society, and politics. Having made significant contributions to the development of contemporary art in Thailand, Mit's work has been exhibited in Palais de Tokyo in Paris, National Gallery Singapore, and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. He continues to make an impact on the Thailand's arts ecology.
Sawangwongse Yawnghwe (b. 1971) was born in Shan State, Burma. His grandfather, Sao Shwe Thaik, was Burma's first president after the country gained independence from Britain in 1948. Shwe Thaik died in prison following the 1962 military coup, and his family was driven into exile. His painting and installation practice engages in politics with reference to his family history as well as current and historical events in his country. Family photographs also provide the basis for a pictorial language through which he explores events in the country, suggesting that existing and available archives cannot reveal a nation's entire truth. In addition, Yawnghwe's work of maps charts the conflicts between drugs such as heroin and amphetamines, revolutionary armies, minority ethnicities, mining and gas pipelines, the armament of generals, as well as state genocide against its minorities. He intends to bring discernible order to a complex political situation. Yawnghwe's work is housed in the collection of MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Thailand.
Founded in Taipei in 2009, TKG+ is committed to supporting experimental, innovative, and critical contemporary art in Taiwan and across Asia, while privileging artistic forms in diverse mediums, as well as open dialogues between different cultural groups. TKG+ hopes to add an eclectic mix to contemporary art in Asia with the artists we represent and their unrelenting pursuit of aesthetics, form, and sensory experience through their ever-evolving practices.
TKG+ 將在Art Jakarta 2019帶來彌載映(Mit Jai Inn)和薩望翁.雍維(Sawangwongse Yawnghwe)的作品。藝術家將他們的感知和記憶投射到所處的社會系統中的孔隙之中,揭示了從當代藝術的詩學紐帶中尋找的關鍵坐標。兩位藝術家拆除並重建了在美學政治和歷史之間流動的文化符號,讓藝術創作在當代語境中建構出一個又一個隱喻的建築,混合歷史和記憶成為一種可辨證的片段,使觀者思考它們所處的時空,產生更深入地凝視。
泰國藝術家彌載映(b. 1960),以其充滿活力的抽象繪畫裝置聞名於雪梨雙年展,同時也活躍於泰國當代藝術領域和政治社區。他積極利用藝術探索社會政治影響,透過裝置風格的繪畫,與它們所佔據的空間之間的對話,轉變藝術閱讀與空間干預之間的關係,這些大型作品是基於與文化、社會與政治相對應的藝術實踐。彌載映的作品曾於巴黎東京宮、新加坡國家美術館、東京森美術館展出,除了對泰國當代藝術發展的重大貢獻,亦持續地對泰國的藝術生態產生影響。
薩望翁.雍維(b. 1971)出生於緬甸撣邦。他的祖父蘇瑞泰(Sao Shwe Thaik),是1948年該國從英國獨立後的第一任總統。1962年軍事政變後蘇瑞泰在監獄中去世,家人皆被驅逐出境。雍維的繪畫和裝置作品,與其家族史、緬甸近代史及政治事件高度相關。家族照片亦為其作品提供了圖像語言之基礎,通過對國家事件的探索,其創作揭示出現有的檔案並非是一個國家的全部真相。雍維亦透過地圖網絡的方式,呈現出海洛因與安非他命等毒品、革命軍、少數族裔、礦業與石油、軍事武裝與政府屠殺等各種衝突,試圖從複雜政治局勢中梳理出秩序。雍維的作品也由泰國MAIIAM當代藝術博物館收藏。
TKG+致力於支持台灣和亞洲各地的實驗性,創新性和批判性的當代藝術,同時在不同媒介中提供藝術形式的特權,以及不同文化群體之間的公開對話。 TKG+ 希望通過我們呈現的藝術家以及他們通過不斷發展的實踐不斷追求美學,形式和感官體驗,為亞洲當代藝術增添不拘一格的混合體。
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Friday
30 Aug 2019
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30 Aug 2019
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31 Aug — 1 Sep 2019
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