Friday, September 27, 2024

Artist of the Day, September 27, 2024: Tang Shuo, a Chinese emerging artist, painter (#2122)

 Tang Shuo is a painter of modern life but a peculiar form of modern life beset by the irreconcilable distances between the past and the present. Tang’s paintings both vividly remember the social conflagrations of China’s Cultural Revolution, when radical social reformers waged war on rentier landowners, and yet manage to seem entirely of our own moment. In their tender studies of young lovers, recluses and co-conspirators, there is an undeniably modern sensibility that can be traced back to the wide-eyed passion for colour among Impressionists on voyages abroad over a century ago. Mostly dramatised self-portraits lost in imagined landscapes of lush vegetation and wildflowers, Tang’s world is a paradise of plenty haunted by the vengeful ghosts of the past who return, sometimes violently, sometimes silently, like a nightmare in the minds of the living.

The first member of his family to go to university and now living in the seething metropole of west London, Tang has reimagined the world of his childhood in emotionally complex and hyper-sensitive compositions. Ostensibly, these pictures tell a personal, human story of how social classes fight to survive. They are inspired by the hard experiences of a friend’s father and grandfather, prosperous landowners during the most violent years of the People’s Republic of China. Bearing the guilt of the wealthy, they were dispossessed and exiled.

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 Tang Shuo
Self Portrait with Cat on Shoulder, 2021

Deeds, 2022
Farmer, 2022
Father and Snake, 2022
 Frustrated Man and White Elephant, 2022
 Hunter, 2022
Logger, 2022
 Man and Beast, 2022
 Man at the window, 2022
Man Looking in Mirror, 2022
Portrait of a man pulling a rope, 2022
Portrait of a man, 2022
 Snake Captor, 2022
Spondylosis Patient and Cat, 2022
 Abuser, 2023
Fantasist, 2023
How to Become a Barista, 2023
 Mice eater, 2023
 Snake catcher, 2023
A Family, 2024
 A Person Burned While Seeking Warmth, 2024
 Death Notice from Afar, 2024
 Fire For Warmth, 2024
Onlooker in the Tree, 2024
 Onlookers At The Dead, 2024
The Child Catching Butterflies, 2024
 The Name Day, 2024
 Water, 2024
 Weeder, 2024

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