S.E.A. Focus Curated: hyper-horizon - 22 to 31 January 2021 #01-05, 39 Keppel Road, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065 - Art Porters Gallery
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S.E.A. Focus Curated:
hyper-horizon
22 to 31 January 2021
#01-05, 39 Keppel Road, Tanjong
Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065
Artworks by:
Mulyana
Jamie Tan
Jamie Teo
Jamie & Jamie
MULYANA Mulyana
b. 1984, Bandung, Indonesia
Jogja-based Mulyana was educated as an art teacher and learned knitting
and crocheting at the famous book shop collective Tobucil in Bandung.
Mulyana experiences the act of knitting or crocheting as a form of meditation
and prayer. His pieces begin their lives like small organisms, the modules
slowly blooming with quiet contemplation into vividly colored clusters of queer
forms that seem to hold together tightly, as if a pulling force was binding them
relentlessly with invisible strength. These islands were aptly titled, Sister
island, Coral island and such, ironically prompting us to recall coral life on the
seabed, instead of man-dominant or artificially reclaimed islands. As you draw
closer to peer into the multitude of tiny eyes poking out of the coral-like forms,
cute as they may seem, their intimate presence sucks you into their
microscopic world of tactility and a parallel life – a channel to transcendence?
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In 2008, Mulyana created his alter-ego, the Mogus (Monster), alongside
the Gurita (octopus) and Sigarantang (Mulyana’s clan name). The Mogus is
made of knitted pompoms from unused bulky yarn, adapted from images of
marine life with its beautiful diversity and mystery.“In God’s eyes, our being in
this life is to eventually go to a beautiful place,” says Mulyana for whom art
making is a privileged way of “showing gratitude to our Creator who gives him
a sound mind and a healthy body to be part of life on earth”. Often, Mulyana
speaks of his work with vigorous reference to spirituality and a sense of a
higher being guiding his act of creation.
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MULYANA
Coral Island Harmony #5
2020
Yarn, Dacron, Cable Wire, Plastic Web
Size Variable (Approx H200 x W200 x L38cm)
Unique
Mulyana experiences the act of knitting and crocheting as a form
of silent meditation and prayer. In Coral Island Harmony #5, small
clusters of unique , vividly coloured corals are held together
tightly by an invisible, unseen force, forming into an exuberant,
diverse ocean ecosystem that recalls a thriving marine seascape,
and plays with the idea of a close-knit community. Modular in
nature, the artwork serves as an important reminder that together,
we are all capable of creating boundless beauty and harmony.
The coral island is also home to the Mogus, an octopus-like
creature that is the alter ego of the artist.
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MULYANA Detail
Coral Island Harmony #5
2020
Yarn, Dacron, Cable Wire,
Plastic Web
Size Variable (Approx
H200 x W200 x L38cm)
Unique
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MULYANA Mulyana CV
Education:
2005, Jurusan Pendidikan Seni Rupa, UPI, Bandung.
2004-2005, Jurusan Menejemen Lembaga Keuangan Islam, ISID Gontor, Ponorogo.
Group Exhibitions:
2021, hyper-horizon, S.E.A Focus 2021, Art Porters Gallery, Singapore
2020, Equilibrium: At the Boundary Between Human and Environment, Asia Culture Center,
Gwangju, South Korea
2020, Resilience, ART|JOG|12, Yogyakarta
Solo Exhibitions: 2020, Jumping The Shadow, Sapar Contemporary, New York
2020, The Messenger, Art Porters, Singapore 2019, Indonesian Contemporary Art and Design 2019: Faktor X, Jakarta
2020, Diver(sea)ty, ESPLANADE- Theatres on the Bay, Singapore 2019, We Are Robot, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne, Australia
2019, Anima Mundi, Central Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand
2019, A Man, A Monster, and The Sea, Orange County Museum of Art, California, USA
2019, A Man, A Monster, and The Sea, The Goods Shed (FORM), Perth, Australia
2018, Enlightment, ART|JOG|11, Yogyakarta
2018, Multiple Hands, Selasar Sunaryo, Bandung
2018, Coral Atlas, Art Central Hong Kong, HK 2017, Age of Hope Biennale Jogja XIV, Yogyakarta
2012, Mogus World I, Galeri Gerilya, Bandung. 2017, Changing Prespective, ART|JOG|10, Yogyakarta.
2012, Mogus World II, Kedai Kebun Forum, Yogyakarta. 2016, Imaginarium: Over The Ocean Under The Sea, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.
2009, Time after Time, Niagara Sarang Setan, Bandung. 2016, Forest, Artporters, Artstage Singapore, Singapore.
2015, Mapping Melbourne, Multicultural Arts Victoria, Australia.
2015, Let Me Know You More, Chandan Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Commission Works: 2015, Infinity In Flux, ART|JOG|8, Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta.
2019, Window Display HERMES, Seoul. 2014, Bandung New Emergence, Selasar Sunaryo Artspace, Bandung.
2019, Window Display HERMES, Singapore. 2014, 4 Artists of Nafas Residensi, Yogyakarta; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2018, Sea Remembers, ART|JOG|11, Yogyakarta. 2013, Bandung Contemporary: Disposition, Lawangwangi Creative Space, Bandung.
2017, 3 Sister Islands, Facebook Artists in Residence, Jakarta. 2012, Indonesian Contemporary Fiber Art #1: Mapping, Art1 Gallery, Jakarta.
2012, Start Light, Galeri Gerilya, Bandung.
Residencies: 2012, Design/Art: Renegotiating Boundaries, Lawangwangi Creative Space, Bandung.
2019, Project 11, Melbourne, Australia 2012, Reposisi, Galeri Nasional, Jakarta.
2014, Nafas Residency, Yogyakarta 2011, Contemporary Archeology Chapter Two, SIGIarts, Jakarta.
2010, Alter Media, Djamoe #4, UPI Bandung.
2010, Leasure All Mine, Play Dead #2, Galeri Padi, Bandung.
2010, Play Your Magic Finger, Tobucil & Klabs, Bandung.
2010, La Light Music Fest, Sabuga, Bandung.
2009, Deer Andry, Mes 56, Yogyakarta.
2009, Toys Are Us, Tobucil & Klabs, Bandung.
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Grey Areas Triptych by Jamie Tan and Jamie Teo A grey area refers to an area or something that lacks clearly defined characteristics, or existing between two extremes and having mixed characteristics of both. In paint, black is all colours combined and white is the absence of colour. Grey exists in between, embodying the quality of ambiguity which metaphorically translates to an infinity of possibilities. Reflecting upon the perception of grey and looking beyond its negatively associated meanings of dull, monotonous, boring, the triptych explores the infinite potential of the colour.
JAMIE TAN Jamie Tan
b. 1990, Singapore
Jamie Tan is interested in the elusive nature of colours
and their formal possibilities in painting. To him,
colours embody the spirit of freedom, where they
seemingly expand, recede and overlap within their
own boundaries. In his artworks, Tan explores the
interaction of colours and how we perceive them —
colours seem static by themselves but enter a
transformative, ever-shifting state when relative to
their surroundings. The simplicity of tonal values in his
paintings allows the viewer to experience a sense of
movement; a pushing and pulling effect achieved
through the contrast of lightness and darkness and
the distances between Tan’s methodically positioned
bands of colours.
Tan received his BA (First class honours) in Fine Arts
from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore,
awarded by Goldsmith University of London, in 2017.
Since graduation, Tan has participated in several solo
and group exhibitions and regional art fairs in
Malaysia and Singapore
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JAMIE TAN
Blank Slates
2020
Oil on Linen
H145 x W110 cm
Blank Slates begins with the idea of how a painter would use the
colour wheel as a chart/map. Guided by the colour wheel, painters
establish their coordinates on their paintings and plot bridging points
of colours that eventually runs in a full circle. Tan paints the sequence
of the colour wheel as an underpainting and divides them horizontally
into 12 sections, with different tonal values of grey in columns of
different sizes/ ascending order. The artist then selectively leave out
areas where colours reveal themselves through tiny gaps and reveal
even more when the viewer orientate themselves to the side of the
painting.
The ephemeral nature of grey and its ambiguous quality intrigues Tan
as grey possesses the ability to interact with other colours from
within, transforming and shifting said colours into different shades
and tones. In other words, if colour is an entity, grey is the catalyst of
its character.
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JAMIE TAN Detail
Blank Slates
2020
Oil on Linen
H145 x W110 cm
Pg.9JAMIE TAN Detail
Blank Slates
2020
Oil on Linen
H145 x W110 cm
Pg.10JAMIE TAN Jamie Tan CV
Select group exhibitions
2021 hyper-horizon, S.E.A Focus 2021, Art Porters Gallery,
Singapore
Education
2020 Offline Colour, Art Porters Gallery, Singapore
2012 - 2015 Diploma in Fine Arts - Painting
LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore 2018 Art Expo Malaysia, TAKSU gallery, Kuala Lumpur
2018 Locals only, TAKSU gallery, Singapore
2015 - 2017 Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) Fine Arts
LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore 2018 Art Stage Singapore, TAKSU gallery, Singapore
The McNally School of Fine Arts, Goldsmiths University of London
2017 Art Expo Malaysia, TAKSU gallery, Kuala Lumpur
2017 Bilateral Bonds, TAKSU gallery, Kuala Lumpur
2017 MALTI, One East Asia Gallery, Singapore
2017 LASALLE Work in progress show: Neither glimmer nor ghost, Institute of
Contemporary Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
2015 The LASALLE Show: ‘Garnish with’, Institute of Contemporary Arts, LASALLE
College of the Arts, Singapore
2015 LASALLE ‘Fantastic Rubbish: For the Love of Locality’ Exhibition,
Brother Joseph McNally Gallery, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
2014 LASALLE ‘A Space Across From You” Exhibition, Project Space Institute of
Contemporary Arts, Singapore
2014 LASALLE ‘Should We look On The Other Side” Exhibition, Praxis Space
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
Pg.11JAMIE TEO Jamie Teo
b. 1996, Singapore
Drawn by the peculiar sensation of not being able to focus
on any particular area within the surface of colours in her
abstract works, Jamie Teo invites viewers to experience a
different approach to seeing by meticulously blending colours
to both create and investigate its movement and ambiguous
outcomes.
Her paintings embody a sense of tension that lingers
between the stillness and phenomenal movement where
colours begin to change the longer you look at them. Areas
of unique, impulsive textured brushstrokes are built up from
the rigid process of pushing thick accumulated paint back
and forth.
This juxtaposition from the smooth and flat gradient surface
captures fleeting moments where colours merge and break
apart from each other within an ever-changing field of
stillness, evoking a visual interaction between the viewer and
the work, seeing and experiencing an intangible in-between.
Pg.12JAMIE TEO Untitled (Intense Black, Ultramarine Blue, Dioxazine Purple &
Titanium White)
2020
Oil on Linen
H145 x W110 cm
Responding to the theme of hyper-horizon, the artwork investigates
deeper shades of colours and their relationship with black and white.
The painting highlights the climax of white that begin to drown out
toward the edges of the canvas and is then juxtaposed with a split
into two areas, where intense shades of black slowly melt away,
revealing deep blues and purples which fades into a grey.
The ‘new normal’ pushes everyone out from their comfort zone and
into new territories. Experiencing something new may be daunting at
first but it is also crucial for us to do so as we would be oblivious to
what the results could have been, be it good or bad. The contrast
between the use of black and white in the painting represents the
uncertainty and mystery of what lies ahead, but once we venture into
the darkness, we are often astounded by what it holds and carries
within it as well.
Pg.13JAMIE TEO Detail
Untitled (Intense
Black, Ultramarine
Blue, Dioxazine Purple
& Titanium White)
2020
Oil on Linen
H145 x W110 cm
Pg.14JAMIE TEO Jamie Teo CV
Education Select solo exhibitions
2013 - 2016 Diploma in Fine Arts - Painting 2019 Shifting Stillness, Solo exhibition by Jamie Teo, UOB Art Gallery,
LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore Singapore
2016 - 2018 Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) Fine Arts Select group exhibitions
LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore 2021 hyper-horizon, S.E.A Focus 2021, Art Porters Gallery, Singapore
The McNally School of Fine Arts, Goldsmiths University of London
2020 Offline Colour, Art Porters Gallery, Singapore
Awards & Achievements 2019 Art Expo Malaysia 2019, Art Porters Gallery, MATRADE Exhibition and
2018 37th UOB Painting of the Year Singapore, Emerging Convention Centre (MECC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Artist Category,
Silver Award 2019 Art Jakarta, Art Porters Gallery, Jakarta Convention Centre Senayan
Indonesia
2016 The LASALLE Bursary (BA)
2019 S.E.A. Focus, Art Porters Gallery, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
2016 The Winston Oh Travel Award
2018 2018 UOB Painting of the Year Regional Winnings’ Showcase, UOB Art
2015 The LASALLE Bursary (Diploma) Gallery, UOB Plaza 1, Singapore
2015 CDC/CCC Arts Institution Bursary 2018 KAC, Katara Art Center, Katara Cultural Village Building 5, Doha, Qatar
2019 S.E.A. Focus, Art Porters Gallery, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
2018 Art Expo Malaysia 2018, Art Porters Gallery, MATRADE Exhibition and
Convention Centre (MECC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Pg.15JAMIE TEO Jamie Teo CV
2018 The LASALLE Show 2018, LASALLE College of the Arts, Institute of 2015 As Far as I could Reach, LASALLE College of the Arts, Institute of
Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore Contemporary Arts, Singapore
2018 A Dive, Splendid!, LASALLE College of the Arts, Winstedt Campus, 2015 SAVANTS: The Young Artists Among Us Exhibition, The Arts House,
Singapore Singapore
2018 Melange, LASALLE College of the Arts, Project Space, Institute of
Contemporary Arts, Singapore
2017 Between; +Project, Gallery Tomo, Kyoto, Japan
2016 The Measure of Things, The Winston Oh Travel Award, LASALLE College
of the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
2016 Between Walls, The LASALLE Show 2016, LASALLE College of the Arts,
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
2016 Gas and Dust: The Manufactured Space, LASALLE College of the Arts,
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
2016 The Pondok, Winstedt Campus, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
Pg.16JAMIE & JAMIE
Jamie & Jamie
Jamie Tan and Jamie Teo first met in
LASALLE during their school days.
After a few years of separate practice,
they exhibited together for the first
time, with their joint exhibition Offline
Colour, held at Art Porters Gallery
from October to December 2020. In
January 2021, Jamie and Jamie are
presenting a triptych in response to
the curated theme of hyper-horizon at
the prestigious S.E.A. Focus 2021.
Jamie and Jamie are represented by
Art Porters Gallery.
Pg.17JAMIE & JAMIE
As Good as Grey
2020
Oil on Linen
H190x W120 cm
As Good as Grey is a play on the saying as good as gold, overthrowing
the negative connotations of the term grey into something that should
be appreciated and not overlooked. Drawing the viewers in through
the darkest mid-point of the painting, a spectrum of colour hidden
between the rough and rugged textures begins to reveal itself.
Transitioning between shades of orange and teal, the colours seem to
shift and shine through the initial turbulent waves of black and slowly
fades out into white. The darkness of black and grey transforms from
something that hinders and swallows into something that
accentuates and emphasises the lightness of hope.
Pg.18JAMIE & JAMIE Detail
As Good as Grey
2020
Oil on Linen
H190x W120 cm
Pg.19JAMIE & JAMIE Detail
As Good as Grey
2020
Oil on Linen
H190x W120 cm
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