Galerie Taménaga - Booth A201
Chen Jiang-Hong, Sans titre, 200 x 200 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Taménaga
For its first participation in Asia Now, Galerie Taménaga is pleased to present three of its contemporary artists: Chen Jiang-Hong, Kengo Nakamura and Wataru Ozu. All three are of Asian origin and of different generations, their paintings illustrate the interactions between the East and the West, which are inseparable from their practices.
Like his career between Tianjin and Paris, Chen Jiang-Hong's painting sums up this obvious tension between an interiorised Chinese art and the fierce need for universality. Light, colour and movement invade his increasingly abstract canvases.
For the Japanese artist Kengo Nakamura, the digital era and its universal iconography prove to be an inexhaustible source. The artist confronts this new repertoire of ultra-contemporary forms with the very traditional Japanese painting known as nihonga, characterised in particular by the use of an ancestral technique based on natural pigments.
Also influenced by Western aesthetics, Wataru Ozu has studied in Tokyo, New York and London. From this assimilation of these two cultures, his painting questions the fundamental theme of the painter, and more precisely, his obsessions for the motif through the History of Art. To this, he retains the absence of treatment of depths and volumes, related to the beginnings of Japanese art; all in a style that assures us of its contemporaneity.