Upcoming Exhibition | Guo-Liang Tan: Another Folding Scene

Detailed image: Guo-Liang Tan, Untitled 3, 2024 ? Guo-Liang Tan, Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts

Opening: Saturday, 6 July, 3 to 6 pm

Venue: Sifang Art Museum Tongren Road Space, Room 314, No.7, Tongren Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai, China

Sifang Art Museum presents “Another Folding Scene”, a solo exhibition by Singaporean artist, Guo-Liang Tan. The exhibition takes place at the museum’s satellite space located inside the Avenue Apartments on Tongren Road, Shanghai. This marks Tan’s first solo presentation in China.

Furthering his exploration into the idea of paintings as objects existing in space, Tan created several painterly objects by draping painted aeronatical fabric around a wooden stretcher. Marks are made on the translucent fabric by folding and unfolding it, and layering diluted paint on its surface, allowing pigments to pool in the fold lines. These painterly objects are carefully arranged in the emptied and unpolished apartment, appearing at once foreign yet existing together with and within the space. Viewers are invited to move around these artworks which are suspended in mid-air and observe them from differing perspectives, accompanied by changes in daylight, shadows of their bodies, as well as the vivid soundscapes of Chiang Mai based artist Arnont Nongyao.

*The exhibition is supported by Sifang Art Museum*

About the artist

Guo-Liang Tan (b. 1980, Singapore) completed his BA in Fine Art & Critical Studies at Goldsmiths College, London and his MFA at Glasgow School of Art. He was also a guest student at The St?delschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany and an artist-in-residence at the NTU Centre of Contemporary Art. His solo exhibitions include "In Mid Shapes" Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo (2023), “A Folding Scene: Guo-Liang Tan (Singapore)”, Esplanade concourse, Singapore (2023), “Soft Turnings”, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore (2021), “Ghost Screen” Ota Fine Arts, Singapore (2017) and “Play Dead” Space Cottonseed, Singapore (2012). Recent group exhibitions include ”Chronic Compulsions: Selected Works from Art Addicts Anonymous”, The Private Museum, Singapore (2024), “Object of Desire“, Gerearsafn Kópavogur Art Museum, Iceland (2021), “Light to Night:____-in-Progress”, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore (2021), “Strange Forms of Life”, STPI Gallery, Singapore (2020), “Reformations: Painting in Post 2000 Singapore Art”, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2019). His works are in the collection of Singapore Art Museum, Singapore and Tanoto Foundation, Singapore.

Selected Exhibitions

Installation views: "Soft Turnings", 2021, Ota Fine Arts Singapore (slide for more views)

"A Folding Scene", 2023

Esplanade Concourse, Singapore

Installation views:  "A Folding Scene", 2023,  Esplanade Concourse, Singapore (slide for more views)

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Selected Artworks

Guo-Liang Tan, Funny Weather, 2023, Acrylic on aeronautical fabric, oakwood, 210 x 230 x 34 cm 

? Guo-Liang Tan, Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts

Guo-Liang Tan, Untitled, 2024, Acrylic on aeronautical fabric, wood, 120 x 96.5 cm 

? Guo-Liang Tan, Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts

Guo-Liang Tan, Untitled, 2024, Acrylic on aeronautical fabric, wood, 120 x 96.5 cm 

? Guo-Liang Tan, Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts