Primo Marella Gallery - Booth A208
Ruben Pang, Prayers for a Roofless Dwelling, Oil, alkyd and synthetic varnish on aluminum composite panel, 200 × 137 cm, 2021, Courtesy of Primo Marella Gallery & the artist
For ASIA NOW 2021 Primo Marella Gallery is pleased to show the voices of extraordinary artists coming out from Asia, both emerging and already established, all strongly involved in experimenting new and innovative way of expressing themselves.
From Indonesia three very talented artists: Besta Bestrizal (b.1971), whose works display a mastery of charcoal as a medium, with a symbolic and mysterious subjects; Rangga Aputra (b. 1995) who likes to play with texture and explore new materials to get different results and to try to reveal layers of memories about the past; I Gusti Udiantara (b.1976) with his optical “infinity lines” works, inspired from the Balinese culture, made up of religious rituals. From China we will show artworks by He Wei (b.1987) - with a brand-new pictorial cycle dedicated to the portrait, distorted and decomposed, conceived to describe the chaotic vision of human interiority – and Wang Zhongjie (b.1972) with landscapes suspended between the real and the ideal dimensions imbued with intimacy and meditative tones. From Vietnam Nguyen Thai Tuan (b.1965), with his well-known paintings depicting his country of origin with feeble atmosphere of dream with dark shadows. From Singapore Ruben Pang (b.1990) who focuses on automatism, the neurosis and drama of the human condition, explored both through a very particular painting on aluminum and through the dynamism of sculpture. Lastly, Kenji Sugiyama (n. 1962) with his “Libraries” will restrict the viewer to a smaller visual field to experience a meta viewing and evoke his memory of the past and personal experience.